Ask HN: Have you tried using forum software in place of Slack at work? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Have you tried using forum software in place of Slack at work?

#31

Post by walterbell » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 8:36 AM UTC

tra3 wrote: post #3

Yeah, we use a (virtual?) private instance of stack overflow. Now I just have another "inbox" to check. In the comments to the post you linked, someone mentioned funnelling their slack's @here or @username messages to their email inbox and processing them in arrival order. This made me realize what bothers me about me about slack the most -- it's the lack of customizability. The only experience with slack you can hav…

IRCcloud ($50/year) and Matrix/Element (free) provide unified clients for Slack and IRC.

Re: Ask HN: Have you tried using forum software in place of Slack at work?

#32

Post by gardenhedge » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 11:34 AM UTC

I would love a proper work forum. Unfortunately, my work place does not have an async culture at all. People would respond to forum posts with phone calls.

Re: Ask HN: Have you tried using forum software in place of Slack at work?

#33

Post by mjrbrennan » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 10:40 AM UTC

Disclaimer: I work at Discourse. We discuss all our work on an internal Discourse forum, it makes everything much easier to track and long form slow lane discussion is encouraged and baked into Discourse.

We also have chat built in now, with a strong emphasis on interoperability between chat channels and topics so discussions can be easily moved between the fast and slow lane. I love the way we work and I always feel like communicating with the rest of my colleagues is seamless.

The blog post on our recent 3.0 release goes into this more if you are interested https://blog.discourse.org/2023/01/discourse-3-0-is-here/

Re: Ask HN: Have you tried using forum software in place of Slack at work?

#34

Post by dmarlow » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 7:59 PM UTC

mjrbrennan wrote: post #33

Disclaimer: I work at Discourse. We discuss all our work on an internal Discourse forum, it makes everything much easier to track and long form slow lane discussion is encouraged and baked into Discourse. We also have chat built in now, with a strong emphasis on interoperability between chat channels and topics so discussions can be easily moved between the fast and slow lane. I love the way we work and I always feel…

Thanks for sharing! I had no idea this was possible. I think this makes things much more interesting.