Yeah, one of the "worst" (good for metrics, bad for legibility) parts of the trend of moving to discord for any sort of online community is that you have to "join" the community to even view any of the resources ensconced within. Meaning it's poorly indexed (discord search is okay, but not great) and not available at all to external crawlers.

So to continue the analogy comparison, 500,000 people walked in that street at some point. Some unknown percentage of that number is made of unrecognized duplicates (same person new username).

this sounds like the description of most "new" social platforms. we see immediate interest, and then a sudden loss of that interest