My apologies for the delay in an official announcement on the Forums. Personal issues have kept me from being able to organize the information so that I could be thorough. You can find all the information you need
HERE
Discord has a lot of advantages, but nothing is perfect. There may be a lot of channels, but there are not a lot of categories (a category can be muted in it's entirety if you don't want to be bothered with it). We want to find a way to easily bring community members together and at the moment Discord has proven useful in that regard. It's easy to join, it's easy to communicate with, it's easily accessible via mobile devices and it may become more useful to us in the future. There is no requirement to join Discord, but it has over 1000 users on it currently and is a great place to communicate in real-time with people. The choice is yours.
Anyway, come join us in testing Multi-World Functionality!