What I have found works for the couple discords I'm in with friends is a general discussion channel that 90% of activity is in, maybe a channel to post links/im

What I have found works for the couple discords I'm in with friends is a general discussion channel that 90% of activity is in, maybe a channel to post links/images relevant to voice chat if that comes up enough to clog up the general channel, and then a handful of random channels for things that have consistent discussion and which not everyone is interested in. Everything but the main channel can be assumed to be muted for everyone. It's important to not be at all strict about what channel discussion for whatever topic actually happens in, it's easier for people who don't want to see a topic to just scroll past on the occasional times when people post in the wrong channel. I think it's not so much about cordoning things off but instead about not having people needing to scroll past a bunch of stuff they don't care about. The thread feature is neat and while I've mainly used it to post a bunch of images without spamming a channel, I could definitely see it being useful as a first step if we're not sure if something really needs its own real channel.