there are lots of valid reasons why people dislike Discord as a platform for project bug reports & documentation, but the one I haven't seen people mention much is that most people only have transient interest in that aspect of a project, e.g. because they ran into a bug or need to figure something out from an FAQ, whereas Discord cannot service that transient need without also subjecting people to a long-term realtime chat subscription where most of the content is irrelevant noise.

this is also why I dislike mailing lists as a bug report platform, but Discord is worse because it's a for-profit platform that can only survive through engagement farming behaviours, and it inherently has a much higher volume of communications and a lower signal to noise ratio, plus many other issues that others have covered in detail.

@dlatchx yes. I have a decade-long historical backup of the Full Disclosure mailing list since it's one of the fastest offline ways to search for a product name and find security analysis work and some occasional useful chat about it.

I have other specific complaints about mailing lists as a maintenance channel, especially in regard to source management and PRs, but marcan already did a thread on this a while back and covered everything I'd want to say on the subject.