Yeah, in retrospect Discord may not have been the best example for the point I was trying to make. As much as I like what it does right, I also have a lot of c

Yeah, in retrospect Discord may not have been the best example for the point I was trying to make. As much as I like what it does right, I also have a lot of criticisms of it. The "too may channels" issue is absolutely real, and it makes a lot of servers overwhelming. It's also not indexable at all, meaning I often have to resort to using the search bar if something isn't pinned. Admittedly the latter of these isn't the worst experience (Discord search outpaces Slack search by a mile in my experience) but the fact of the matter is that finding a specific moment in a conversation in Discord is far more difficult than it is on something like a mid-2000s forum unless threads are required and their usage is enforced. More important though is the point you made about "somebody with too much time on their hands." Discord definitely pushes the boundaries of asynchrony at times. On bigger servers, it definitely feels like catching up on past messages is less favorable than being online and active as often as possible. This isn't necessarily anything new (while I've never used it, I've heard that IRC occasionally faces a similar issue) but something about it being baked into the nature of the service can feel very invasive at times. I've yet to find a community on Discord that I felt really bonded with outside of people I know IRL or through friends because contribution is far too often king. Perhaps there are more similarities than I realized between Discord and social audio in the general-use case. Single-stream communication divided up into rooms, favoring of the most active individuals, and an emphasis on synchronicity seem to be common traits between the two. I'm not sure what this could mean for Discord in the future, though.