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I like discord a lot for support groups for small projects where it's about 50-100 ish people interested in it. But when a project grows and the server grows with it definitely becomes a struggle for people to look back at whats already been discussed so people keep asking the same questions over and over.
And there is so much idle chatter to scroll through. I shouldn't have to scan through months of jokes and memes to get updated.
Heck, even with a handful of people anything longer form feels like a chore. I've been the admin of a tiny friends only server for a good few years and even in there it feels hard to keep track sometimes when there's more than a single laser focused topic.
That's a moderation issue. The servers I have in have channels per topic and quite aggressively redirect any offtopic convo's into the General Chat.
I mean stuff like parallel conversations on the same topic, a lot of it is probably on my ability to parse it all