If the topic is repeated a lot, or there's an ongoing event or incident happening a megathread seems helpful. All the important information and recent developments can be pinned to a single post, instead of having to trawl through each discussion to either help others find information or to get more info yourself.
Communities that are huge might deploy these more often for lower scale events, as I can imagine the umpteenth thread about some change in a video game being stupid can cause the rest of the community to start disengaging, which is something you want to collectively avoid.
Had the pleasure of playing an early version last year, very cool to see how much of it has "settled" and the direction is crystal clear now. Love the little mechanics
I'm with you but I wouldn't trust search results that point me to a 3rd party tool to do whatever I need to do. Unless the link in question is actually well known and I've just been living under a rock, then don't mind me
"The problem is that for Russian developers, communication with the community, including the international one, and technical support are implemented through Discord,"
Well that's their problem, isn't it? It's also a problem over here. Technical support regarding simple questions is fine, but any in-depth troubleshooting should honestly be done outside of Discord.
You can still do the voting and the sorting without actually showing it publicly. This would make discussions a lot more genuine