Setting aside for a moment Discord's terrible entanglement with the dystopian age verification bullshit that's sweeping the world right now, I'd just like to touch on a little anti-pattern in the way most communities are structured there.
Stop having channels for every topic. This isn't even a PSA about making threads. If your server has a channel for everything, it's about nothing. Have a few different rooms to allow streams of conversation to separate, in the same way that people at social gatherings in meatspace will naturally split off into smaller groups for conversation, but don't be one of these loser moderators that polices conversation.
A social community should not ask its members to transplant a conversation to a new channel because they got distracted talking about sandwiches for five minutes. Don't make a #food channel. Don't make a #pictures-of-pets channel. Have a few on-topic channels (the same rules apply in each; the duplication is just to avoid traffic jams) and one off-topic channel.
Wouldn't it be insane if your friend invited you over, but told you to go to the laundry room every time you went off on a tangent? You'd stop being friends in a hurry.
