well yes. I feel that the guild chat should redirect to the discord instead of the dead, retired chat system. I would also remove the bit about posting in the introduction thread all together. you want new users to get the impression the forum is a happening place, which is why it is important they see a lot of activity right away. If we can't get the community into the welcome section, bring the new users to discord. 

Speaking for myself, I've never been a huge fan of the welcome sections anywhere. Regardless of what I wrote, I'd mostly get people posting some variation of "welcome to X!" when what I really wanted to see was that someone shared a few of my interests. I entered the community on the roleplay discussion part of the forum. Which is kind of sad, because it's mostly dead and I wouldn't have likely stuck around if that part of the forum had such low activity.

As far as why I don't personally go to the welcome part of the forum? Because of the risk/reward ratio when dealing with new users. very few of them know how to write an introduction post. "Hello, In case you can't read above my avatar, this is my username. I like rollplaying, and I want to write with you soon." I really don't want to be one of those "Welcome to RPG!" people, but I'm usually not given much to work with. So I just avoid it.

This is why I think the "you are your avatar" game that broby suggested is great. I get to act like an idiot and get kudos for it. It's relatively simple and easy to join in on. No one person has to be the babysitter, the community can take turns humiliating themselves in front of the new guys. The discord chat is okay, but not everyone is going to feel comfortable jumping into a chat server with all those random people. An avatar game lets everyone hide their identity a little bit while doing what the site was designed for: rollplaying.  

I know we're not really looking for stuff for Mahz to do, but profile pages could be tweaked a bit. It would help if there were several sections to fill out with various interests. I realize new users can do that with the bio section, but having various fields kind of gives new users hints as to what they should be writing. I'm not going to lie, quite a few people I recruited for my Danganronpa RP I acquired just by striking up a conversation about Danganronpa with people that had avatars from the game. I think people would be more likely to have conversations with new users if they knew what their interests were.