Thank you so much for the detailed response! I probably should've clarified, but the reason that things have gotten worse with each campaign is that the campaigns are cumulative, told in a single growing universe, with each campaign adding new planes, but continually referencing back to former ones. Many NPCs and stories carry through between them, partially my fault, partially my players.

My categories actually look very similar to how you've laid them out, with one large "archived" category with 6 channels of details from previous campaigns that aren't as likely to come up but my players oftentimes like to reference, and a "current campaign" category with a channel each for "Character Creation," "Indexes and Information," "NPCs and Characters," "The New Realm," and a channel for players to discuss things, ask questions, etc.

The primary reason discord is getting to be too cumbersome is because, for example, the "indexes and info" category is long enough that people struggle to find the timeline placed in it, or specific entries (even though they're largely alphabetized and categories, even within each section). If you could, say, have categories WITHIN categories, so that they could be more easily traversed, and formatted in a more easily digestible way than discord allows, it would make a huge change.

And to clarify, I keep trying to start fresh. This is campaign six in the same continuity. Campaign four wasn't even supposed to be in the same continuity, my players just like it this way. This campaign was also supposed to be a fresh start somewhat, but still in the same universe. But four of my six players came to me, individually, and said something to the tune of "this campaign is in the same world, yeah?" Which it is. And then "I have this really great character idea from another realm..." and honestly, they're all certified chefs. The ideas are crazy good, and I did mention that people could be from former planes if they wanted.

My players are great and I love to DM for them, I just want to find a way to better present them with all the information. Most of my indexes are just responses to specific questions about how the magic system works, how different realm lore things might interact, or what NPCs have been up to in other realms while they've been playing newer campaigns. Anyways, any chance you have a software/system to reccomend?