And in a room with any measurable amount of people, it quickly becomes impossible to find anything or track conversations. I'm in a couple developer servers for some hosted apps, and goddamn is it painful when I actually need to use them for support. Hell, even my local friend group server with a dozen or so people can be annoying when it's really popping.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I use discord to contribute as a dev for open source project and constantly needing to pull up years old conversations for reference. One of the few ways my close-to-perfect memory actually helps out is remembering who said what and when word for word so I know exactly what keywords to type into the search bar. Its such a good feeling being able to go "oh yeah speaking of the suggestion on adding ambient tracks for X thing one of our composers already made test tracks for that like two years ago. Let me hunt down the tracks they uploaded. Now who exactly was that composer again? I think it was X, let me browse through their chat history pinpoints it on first try