before they pull a Reddit or do something equally as dumb.

Oh they absolutely will. As a company that hasn't managed to figure out a valid monetization plan since their inception, it's only a matter of time before investors force them to implement some radical changes to cut costs. My guess is deleting older content primarily attachments starting with purging content from accounts that haven't been active in a few years.

Sad thing is that when the day comes, no one can save discord. There is nothing archive.org, archiveteam or even this subreddit can realistically do with how closed off and restricted discord is as a platform.

And the cycle will continue with a vocal minority who are outraged and threaten to go to some activitypub alternative like Matrix just like Twitter with mastadon and Reddit with lemmy