The entire 3D printing community has switched to discord there is no more forum, blogs or something else; even reddit was not able to compete with discord, and that was before the blackout in June. Since then, a lot of 3D printing subreddits are closed or only accessible in archive mode. So what does it means in practice?
I have 30 different discord servers on the 3D printing topic (across the others i use for gaming or friends), each with 50+ different channels, not counting subchannels. For the Voron 3D Printing, i have the official Discord + 4 other fans discords including 3 in my local language. You cannot read everything, as chats are mixing high quality information but also random chats not usefull.
Some discords are only available if you pay a montly fee on Patreon Some discords are completely empty but make a "news announcement" some times to times that is not published elsewhere that is why i keep them in my list You have to manually pickup the notification otherwise some servers are constantly spamming.
Of course you cannot search across all discords at the same time and discord is picky with typos so if you search "pizze" across the pizza-discordverse you will get nothing specifically for each precise component reference, you have to search the servers 1 by 1, this is really painfull Discord is trying to create their version of reddit threads but that is shitty and not usefull in practice
It was a fantastic platform back to the covid period but now it's becoming very complex and not usable; the main pain point is that (as instagram) is it not indexed on any search engine.