this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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This is often done by people while the project is unstable. No need to write documentation that gets outdated every few weeks, when you can help people live in discord.
It shouldn't be done at all. If you're updating discord, you're writing something. That something should be, at the bare minimum, in a README file.
If you can't be bothered with Markdown, just do text.
I've never encountered this in the wild so I can't say for certain why a FOSS project would choose to do this.
Maybe they are trying to get more people on their server?
Discord uses a subset of Markdown for message formatting, so they'll be writing it regardless