This is the exact case where we’re not keeping up with the with the changing landscape of how the members of our communities are consuming content.
I faced the exact same decision. Have something robust, well organized, with great SEO, something that will allow us to create a legacy due to the nature of the content we’re creating.
But people today (and this is obviously a generalization) do not feel like e.g. Slack is taking something away by limiting the history to the last 90 days.
One of my members told me (and she’s an extremely successful entrepreneur just hitting her 30s) that today, if the information is older that 3 months she’s not reading it, as everything changes so fast, digging up old stuff is just a waste of time. Regardless whether it’s business, science or… well, life.
And of course, having threads like we do here regarding a plugins that may get updated many months in the future - it is the valid case. but other than that - in the sense of “building the community” it’s more about the “feeling of belonging” and being able to interact with this community with little-to-none friction, instead of figuring out all the options that overwhelm us.
I talked bout it in previous threads, where I was asking about Skool success, as compared to Discourse.