OTG is a single online community. We are not a coalition of individual games. Splitting every chapter into individual discord servers would be the first step in driving the community apart. A unified discord server also provides for easier transitions between chapters. Many of our members enjoy playing in multiple different chapters at the same time and should not need to join multiple discord servers for communication.
From a user experience point of view, a single discord server is simply easier for a member to use. There do not have to join different discord servers if they want to join a new chapter. Having to deal with different permissions in every different server would be a nightmare for user as well as the admins.
From the more administrative side; administrating, moderating and maintaining 10,15 or 20 discord server would be a nightmare for myself and the other admins. If members are electing to create individual discord servers for their own use, that is something they are all completely within their rights to do. However, using the official Old Timers Guild name and/or logo is not. If a chapter leader is doing this, they need to reach out to myself and the other admins.
In closing, the benefits of a single discord server drastically outweigh the constraints. If a chapter feels they need something that isn’t offered in the current discord setup, all they need to do is have their chapter leader reach out to me.