Channels become absolutely necessary once servers hit very large user counts. Even “low” large numbers at around 1000 users total with 200 actives at any given

Channels become absolutely necessary once servers hit very large user counts. Even “low” large numbers at around 1000 users total with 200 actives at any given time result in chaos if there is only one text channel. Now imagine a server of 40,000 with many more actives (fandom servers will easily hit those numbers). > “My server is too big to not have channels — you can’t usefully stuff a thousand people into a single channel productively. (As evidence, look at Twitch streams!)” GP even admits it themselves. But >discord just doesn’t scale well, because it lacks good threading and discussion-organizing features It’s not supposed to. It’s an ephemeral chatting app, not a forum. One best practice that I’ve seen that helps turn a particular channel into a forum is to slow-mode the channel with a long cooldown. Make the cool-down about 60secs and the nature of discussion very quickly changes.