This trend was happening before LLMs entered the arena.
Discord is great for chatting with your friends, gaming, etc. but man it's a horrible knowledge repository.
Every time I boot into Manjaro to do some gaming, almost always there’s a new update for Discordavailable and guess what? The updates to Manjaro are always lagging behind a few days to a week, and Discord won’t run with a slightly out of date client.
The only way to get is working is using the snap, and who doesn’t want use some 3rd party package manager just to send some kbit/s voice data?
Additionally the interface sucks and is really bloated
I don't disagree, but that does not change the fact that people have moved from sites like SO to Discord for this purpose.
There are Q&A channels, so not everything is chat, but Discord search is abysmal
Slack is another place where former SO content / answers are happening. Discourse too. The tl;dr is that it has become more fragmented, for better or worse
SO has a related problem to Reddit. Some mods high on their status and power
Once, before I realized this, I recommended users of a forum use Discord. The impact was severe and fortunately brief. We all realized we would not be leaving the usual, often high value info for others, and ourselves to benefit from in the future.
We unwound that mess and now carry on in the usual way.
Discord has carved out a huge chunk of discussion people will wish was available in the future.
I haven't really tried one as a QA or knowledge sharing site, perhaps they're much less good at that.
