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The part that gets me is that they serve totally different use cases. Reddit is a message board; people post things and then discuss them over a period of time. Discord is a chat program; any thing discussed "in the past" (more than 5 minutes ago) is pretty much gone, and it's almost impossible to follow "a discussion thread". Discord is absolutely awful for anything but live discussion. And Reddit is anything but live discussion.

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Discord does has a "Forum" mode for channels. I cannot for the life of me figure out why no servers seem to use it. Trying to follow conversations or find useful info in a normal chat channel is incredibly frustrating.

The forum (as well as ‘stage’ and ‘announcement’) feature requires changing to a “community” instance which has some other strings attached. AFAICT long-running servers would never know the new setting is available.

This is exactly why I cringe when any company support or communities say “check out our discord!” Which equals to me “you’ll never find anything and we don’t care!”

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