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Discussion on: Why I dislike chat-based platforms for OSS communities

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We are having that problem at my work right now as well. We use Slack, which is helpful to have runnign discussions, but stuff is just getting lost. We're trying to push more informatin into GitHub issues now.At least that has a record of it, and it's organized into issues.

Slack's threading feature suffers from a terrible UX. Nobody wants to use it for that reason.

I also use mailing lists and groups. I find them better for offline communications, but are also rather disorganized. At least they have threading though.