Agreed - humans like participating in chats better (when you have a problem, you want live humans ready to answer you now), but the SO style archive is better for long term archiving & retrievability.
A LLM product that turns Discord transcripts into a browsable Q&A archive would be neat.
There are already several projects that have tried the “expose Discord data for indexing” model. Problem is no chat servers ever actually use them, perhaps because they’re at odds with expectations of people in the servers themselves.
A LLM product that turns Discord transcripts into a browsable Q&A archive would be neat.