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Comment by emptybottle | Hacker News Reader

Discord channel sprawl is a strange phenomenon. It happens to each server I’ve joined, just gets worse over time.

I think park of the issue is that you cant /part a channel in discord. Every channel you have access is automatically joined, you can’t leave and you have to adjust notifications for each to avoid an overwhelming number of messages.

That and the communities are usually small-ish so you have the same people in most of the channels.

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The solution I use to combat this is right click > mute server for every server I join, and also check the box under notifications > suppress @everyone and @here notifications. Then if I want notifications (either just the visual dot indicator or an actual ping for messages) I can do that on a per channel basis.

The only notifications I get are when I'm explicitly tagged or if a role I've opted in to is tagged. This cleans up the notification spam almost entirely, I only wish there was a way to set that as the default for any new server I join.

Even small communities can have painfully unaware, "organization" obsessed OCD people in it. They are generally the ones that keep insisting some particular thread of discussion really belongs in #xyz.

bigger communities work around this with roles to gate access, where the role is granted with bot interaction.

we could argue over what the application defaults should be, but its not unexpected the authors and users trend toward engagement being the default.

Every server eventually adds channels for memes, general off-topic, and pets.

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