Awful searching experience, gated, so many problems. But that's where the people are. I only hope Matrix can improve their UX and encourage at least some people to migrate there instead
I really wish forums were still popular, I love the elixir forums for finding info but discourse is such a mess to use (when Googling something, I want to ctrl+f with my browser, thanks..).
Search is better, but something that self organizes knowledge would be amazing.
Especially this. It's impossible to find anything when searching on Discord. There are no threads, just channels which easily get thousands of messages per day. Maybe it'd help if those programming servers had logger bots which would index everything and upload it to a website where one could search it, but it still wouldn't solve everything. It feels sad because most of that content is likely going to be lost (it's not searchable anyway). IRC isn't much better in this aspect, but at least it is a more open protocol and one can easily write a program/script to archive the content. Discord on the other hand bans "self-bots" and unofficial clients.
Another problem is being unable to continue a thread after some time, but Reddit has the same problem with their "archived" posts. I personally don't see much value in "archiving" posts except perhaps lowering mental overhead of the moderators. It's frustrating when I almost have the solution to my problem but end up having to open a completely new thread, wait for the right people to notice it and then hope it gets answered in time before it's "archived".
Edit: typo
So, essentially everything is a chat these days?