Unfortunately it's worse than that now. It used to be that everything got siloed into channels, now things get siloed into the new forum system.
These forum channels don't automatically appear in the sidebar and you get no indication of anything new added unless you specifically follow the thread.
Moving into forum threads is a great way to kill a conversation, perfect even, honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the feature was added just so Discord could appear in "forum" searches. There's no way the feature was planned when it's so bad for conversations.
In any case the discord mod quirk of stomping on discussion inertia plus this horrible new forum system guarantees a conversation fizzles out immediately.
I'd rather software chats not be on Discord, but that said I've found the forum feature quite helpful for help channels. You get auto-search for the topic as you type out a title, and if you don't see what you need, you can turn it straight into a topic. It's a lot better than the old system of posting into a rolling scroll and hoping one of the regulars is around, and that you're not asking a question which should be in the docs but isn't (and therefore gets asked an annoying amount of times).
It's quite possible the communities I'm active in are using the forums feature wrong if it works well for a QnA/helpdesk scenario haha
Thinking about it that use case makes far more sense than what the communities I'm in are using it for (basically just dynamic #channels that anyone can create) - especially with how nobody is a part of the discussion by default. That does make way more sense for a helpdesk kinda setup rather than misc discussion threads.
These forum channels don't automatically appear in the sidebar and you get no indication of anything new added unless you specifically follow the thread.
Moving into forum threads is a great way to kill a conversation, perfect even, honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the feature was added just so Discord could appear in "forum" searches. There's no way the feature was planned when it's so bad for conversations.
In any case the discord mod quirk of stomping on discussion inertia plus this horrible new forum system guarantees a conversation fizzles out immediately.