Join and just chat with the people that might come, cuz why not?
If you want to chat, why not come to the official itch discord server? Forums are usually not the greatest place for instant messaging.
What do you mean? Of course forums are the best place! You modern folk just take your fancy-schmancy Discord for granted and never truly appreciate the art and history behind the timeless excellence that is online forums.
For you see! The usage of forums date as far back as the prehistoric times, when our ancestors used stone on stone to carve forth upon rock walls their contempt for fellow man, and agrue whether feminine-looking men were superior to actual females. This tradition has long been kept upheld throughout the ages; from feces, to paper, to electricity, all of which are still upheld in the modern day.
However, this "Discord" you speak of is a blasphemy upon all aforesaid! A gambling ploy set forth by the reptilian shadow governments to strip from all their morality and humanity so that the time may come when genetically engineered cat girls may rule the world in their stead, placing the entirety of all life under their paws and enslaving us to do their bidding!
So in conclusion, online forums are objectively better than Discord and other mediums resembling it. That will be all.