Add a forum archive timer for a month, year or infinite
Forums are very usefull, evenso if it's for a discord rules set, quickstart guide on game servers etc. The search feature is very handy for players that are looking for a specific problem inside the game.
The layout of the forum cards in a forum channel are great too but it's a shame they dissapear quickly after a week. That way I can not scroll forums for hours looking at interesting older posts about the game of the discord that I'm in.
I'd say extend the archive timer to months, years, inifinite. I know it will cost resources to upkeep these forum posts so maybe limit a forum post of x amount of MB to only a X amount of time.
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That is absolutely true.
In the current form the feature that sounds very promising for organizing content on a server, functions in a way that prevents it from being useful for any case other that a very limited option to swipe short lived topic under the rug.
When I noticed the feature today on our 1k+ members server for game modding, I immediately thought that we finally have a way for community driven "themes" which can be controlled by mod authors, without clogging the channel list with dozens of small channels which are always visible. Ability to view a list of themes in such forum will act as a browser for available mods. Ability to sort them in a user defined order will allow to easily show what is more or less important.
So in a forum channel, individual topics/threads will work as themes for individual mod or author, will provide an easy way to host a kind of a landing page for the mod and an isolated place to discuss it.
This is almost possible, BUT ruined because:
1) You can't expect that for every mod topic used as a place to host updates, links, discussions - it will be active every two weeks. Just not realistic for any but the most popular, highest 10% of mods.
2) You can't pin the first post for it to be always easily reached and visible - that means that only the current discussion is visible.
Guys, Discord team, you even named this feature "forum". Can't you look at what made the original forums popular in 90s-00s great? Their permanency, their indispensability for organizing the information in a way that is always helpful for people.
If we forget about mods, and think about forum channels as a way to host a collection of guides, community wikis - it's the exact same set of missing features which should be very straightforward to implement.
Please, Discord team, think about this, we need this.
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Thread disappearing makes forums pretty much useless.1 -
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Defeats the purpose of forum threads if you can't see past forum posts greater than 1 week. Guides and such are exactly why I want to use this feature. Expecting at least 1 post a week is ludicrous.
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