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I notice that the Discord has been organised to look like the current forum layout, but the difference between the Discord categories/channels/threads structure (and privileges) mean that's a bit of an illusion.
On this site, creating forums and subforums require privileges, but anybody can create a thread. On Discord, mods have created categories to match the common top level forums, and below that there's an inconsistent mix of forum channels and ordinary channels. But all an ordinary Discord user can create is posts (within forum channels) or threads (within normal channels but not forum channels). The result is that there are are things on the Discord that look like the LFGSS layout but can only have been created by mods, where on LFGSS they were created by ordinary users. On here, the BTOB thread was created by an unprivileged user at the top level of the General forum area; couldn't do that on Discord so a mod must have created the existing channel. There's nowhere appropriate (or at least equivalent) for me to recreate the "Musk is a cunt" thread and I don't have the privileges to create such a space. "Musk is a cunt" doesn't need to be at top level, far from it, but right now my only option would be to make a thread in an ordinary channel and there are no appropriate ones.
I think some of the current layout needs a rethink, at least. It's getting very little use at the moment, but if it does then these will become issues. The Discord can't be organised the way the forum is - the basic rules are different - but that means the current layout needs changing.