I like the continued migrations from Reddit but Discord doesn’t seem like the best destination

Yeah, to be truly useful, a community needs to be googleable. And discord is certainly not that.

That, and the conversations move far faster there. Any remark about anything moves the subject further up, and you're essentially subjected to reading the comments section of the entire sub all at once when you just came for the memes.

Holding a conversation in such a large place would be near impossible from experience, no matter how many channels there are. It's just not going to be pleasant because it's not made for that.

Discord has threads now, works just like Reddit.

You can create a thread and people can comment on them just fine.

Fair point. I keep forgetting that's a thing, because I've genuinely never seen anyone ever use it aside from one single time just to see what it did/harass another user. And then immediately everyone went, "Huh. Neat," and lost interest.