[quote=@Meleck]For some of use the “new, more reliable” discord gaming leaves a lot to be desired. The posts tend to be short, fast and without much to them. [/quote]
Find better discord groups that write to your level and are compatible with what you are looking for, then.

[quote=@Meleck]First, people are becoming less literate. Facebook, tweets, texting, et al have created a culture where people are rewarded for short posts. [/quote]
People were not all that literate when I started at the turn of the century. Most of us were either kids and high school students. Hobbyist writing didn't ask for "literacy" until years after the fact. We had blogs and guestbooks back then. We may not have had twitter or mobile phones that could text, but we were hardly en masse descriptive writers. Hobbyist writing, specifically RPing, has always appealed to this demographic.