Well well. This is good news..... as someone who has tried to jump on at Kano, Ive always been put off from the 154-176 day ramp up times whenever I looked at it. Specially this close to the halving, I basically wrote the pool off entirely.
But now, its back in the picture as a realistic option for me! I think its a great move!
Mine on! and come on over to Discord if you have any questions/issues you want to discuss

struggling to jump in Discord, keeps pushing me out.
Well it takes 10 minutes before you can type anything.
As for connecting, the invite should only be necessary the first time if you have setup a discord account.
Anyway, the pinned message explains how to get a role so your account will always list the channel when you login.
Without a role, I think you just need to browser bookmark the channel (and use the bookmark after you login to Discord)