So which is it? Join Discords? Or forums? Or?...
> To me this sounds like a fair description of curiosity!
It isn't. Bullshit is finite. Life is finite. There are so many things to satisfy one's curiosity that don't involve digging through bullshit.
The main reason you have to "just google it" to find any coherent info on crypto projects is that when you boil everything down to a single-page coherent description of what it is they are trying to do, it turns out it's just bullshit. That's why all these projects, consciously or not, never produce anything that someone can point to and say: go, read this. Almost invariably it's "just find it on Discord".
A great example is in a sibling discussion mentioning Orange DAO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30133241
Even your example literally has nothing of value in that discussion. Original problem statement: "Now they are grappling with how to update registration prices when domains expire". There's literally no grappling in there. A regular community discussion with a voting mechanism that is happening hundreds of thousands of times a day all around the world. This is interesting? How?!