[monocultured]

Twenty or so years ago I was running Hotline and KDX servers, and loved having "my own place" where people could visit and hang out. Recently, I started a Discord channel to rediscover some of that same feeling, but it's mostly become a persistent chat for my friends (in lieu of Messanger, Telegram, etc). Some other channels I've joined are quite quirky and fun though.

The main difference being that you could only be logged in at one server at a time – unless you had multiple client installs – and there's something nice about that limit; you have to choose a hangout and tend to engage more because of it.

I agree with the OP though – I wouldn't rely on Discord as a knowledge repo…

[aaomidi]

People are using it as a knowledge repo and it's not indexable.

Learning from past discussions is getting so much harder.

Discord can and should fix this.