Discord is very helpful for if you are doing Tabletop rpgs on sites like Roll20 so you can gather your friends abit more easily, but yes the character limit for text based can be a bit annoying.

However Discord has allowed me to stay in contact with a roleplay partner from rpg for the last 2 years despite alot of things going on in both our lives and we are still rping today thanks to Discord. They are the single best rp partner ive had when it comes to text / forum based, and she knows who she is.