User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The Official Discord Server for Fandom and Gamepedia Editors/@comment-4625170-20190709025831/@comment-11515627-20190710042528

This is a very good point, plus it's making additional API calls which can slow performance even after page load. Personally, I never believed the user avatars were all that useful anyway. The way I see it, if you've already joined the server, you can check who's online in the Discord app, and if you haven't, then seeing who's online will be completely irrelevant information.

As an admin I'd reconsider whether to even have the plugin, as I think a personalized Discord logo themed with the wiki's topic would be a lot simpler and more effective.