Jason Scott put out a plead to discord in 2021[0], with asks similar to the end of the article to add archiveability to their service, and I basically replied saying this is what we get for ditching irc, and he replied a tepid "I know what you're trying to say."

I love Jason and the work he does and I don't blame him. The thing is Discord was never going to play ball, why would they? Again, we're going to have this discussion in 2026 too and nothing will change. I appreciate now he does offer thoughtful rebuff wrt IRC, but it is a pain then that other platforms like matrix haven't had Discord's uptick.

People just gave up on better interfaces to IRC or other protocols. I get it many things are magic and we don't know how to get numbers, but it can't hurt to try.

[0] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1345422597505351685