Improving navigability to match readability standards (image OCR term search, so on)

Discord is, for me and many others I'd imagine, the main application used for communication. Which is, distinct from twitter, and twitter's message length restrictions, for example. But, discord does have message length limits. Between my friends, I often exceed it in writing longer messages, so I have to send it as a text file. But the discord file preview, designed for viewing code, has no word wrap -- it's ridiculous to have to scroll back and forth to read line by line. I am aware this is an existing issue (https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500000652642-Word-wrap-of-the-file-preview), but I'd like to offer more thoughts on why this is such a major issue in my opinion.
Why not download the file, you may ask? Well, that defeats the purpose, of the preview being a *preview*, if I cannot really preview the content that I'm actually downloading... It would seem reasonable that, if I want to communicate using an application, it should be reasonably do-able for me to do so without having to leave the application.
Especially the fact that, discord monetises the capacity to send longer messages without having to send them as files (through a privilege by discord nitro), it seems that using the file preview for longer messages would be pretty reasonable, if opposed to the profit model that discord has taken (looking at you, investors; tencent, so on). The implementation of the file preview, having support for programming language colouring but not word wrap, seems in apparent ignorance of the utility that a file preview could be used for more than code, and there are countless situations in both direct messages and servers where it would be reasonable to want to exchange essays.
Overall, I would be looking for more drop-down-style functionality in general, as it is exceptionally hard to navigate to months-or-years-past content without having a good bearing on the date or specific search terms, or if the content is an image (since, to my disappointment and surprise, discord does not yet run OCR on images for search terms in history).
When conversations, threads, channels, etc. often run for hundreds or thousands of lines worth, I think navigability ought to have the same development priority as readability in terms of interface design. This includes both more extensive features for conversation search, and offering users novel ways to improve the sleek-ness of their messages themselves. Word wrap is a modest functionality request towards this goal.
Two other admirable goals I've thought of independently and found here in discord support, is having drop-down messages without file uploads altogether (https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360049911411-Drop-Down-Messages), and using OCR for image search terms as I mentioned (I can't seem to find an existing issue/suggestion for that). To be clear, I think discord could use more feature design oriented towards navigability specifically - this is a nieche of opportunity that hardly any modern messaging applications meet decent standards.
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