Quality Culture vs Engagement in Community Events

As the title suggests building a culture of quality is harder than driving engagement and I'm genuinely unsure whether I should keep going with this approach so I'd love some honest opinions.

The screenshots show our new #archives channel which I created yesterday. I made cards for each of our standout events. We've hosted more than whats shown but these represent the best of them only 5 truly quality events over 3 years. Four went incredibly well and the last one failed pretty badly.

We're also planning an art based event run by our community on Instagram and we're currently looking for sponsors.

what's really been on my mind ?

I've been focused on running unique Discord events the kind you dont typically see elsewhere. Sometimes they fall flat sometimes they take off. They're not frequent and while everyone recommends at least one event per month that's a challenge when every concept is original and people rarely show interest upfront.

Now Im questioning my own motivation am I hosting events for real engagement or just for appearances?

What I'm trying to build is a culture of quality over quantity. But it's infrequent it doesnt generate as much engagement as traditional events and our upcoming Instagram event won't drive any activity on Discord at all. So I have to ask: "is this still worth pursuing?"

So one of the things that we've noticed on the data side is that nobody on the internet looks for discord events to join, which makes it hard for you to market it.

Discord events historically been associated with engaement, but it's possible that you can generate more stickniess by showing up to the vc very often.

I know reddit can be a freindly please if you want to work on more discord event, bc its so hard to make it commercial, lot of subreddit would like you post it.

If you want to grow, what we've started to do is to try to leverage the events for different purpose, for example, a high level summary that can be indexed on seo and google,

If you are doing compeition, u wanna finalize it with a livestream, i dont think its a best idea to grow another social media chnnel and at least you will get some content out of it. Growing on discrd purely is extremely difficult without any other social media channels help.

Some people use X, use twitch, use youtube or use reddit

btw, did you check this out: https://discord.com/channels/943932308283588628/1498979652729966715/1501012284229550182

i tink u will get talking to , the server is super cool

Discord servers in general are quantity over quality imo.....if you are enjoying it, then keep going with your events....otherwise, look for server merges...I went that route when I started questioning if it was worth my time