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People think I am insane but I often think forums would be way better than Slack or Teams for company collaboration.
Forums are so much better for threaded conversations than anything else it’s amazing. All our modern tools are chat based with some thread support hacked in.
Wut? It would have been nice to know this before I spent effort filling out all information and generating a password.
> Registrations are currently turned off. Wut? It would have been nice to know this before I spent effort filling out all information and generating a password.
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I think you are same! Great idea. A forum is going to be way more searchable. If you want realtime notifications that was solved 50 or more years ago with email or say 20 ish years ago with RSS. For this reason I prefer JIRA comments with @-ed colleagues over slack which provides the context and async communication. An ephemeral slack-like (snapchat for teams!) might be useful for the remote equivalent of talking whi…
I've been thinking about "ephemeral Slack" the last few weeks after a flurry of posts about Slack and workplace communication. I love the idea. I use Slack a lot for technical discussions with my peers. I've noticed that I seem to be the only person in our department that translates these discussions into Confluence/GitHub documentation. I'd be very interested to see if an "ephemeral Slack" would force us to be bette…
> Registrations are currently turned off. Wut? It would have been nice to know this before I spent effort filling out all information and generating a password.
sorry man. this guy won't leave the site alone and keeps posting really racist shit despite me continuing to block his IP addresses over and over.
May be worth showing that message on the registration page right from the start if/when registrations are turned off.
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sorry man. this guy won't leave the site alone and keeps posting really racist shit despite me continuing to block his IP addresses over and over.
Got it. I found out after reading the rest of the thread. Hope you can figure out the culprit, or he’ll just forget about it after a day. May be worth showing that message on the registration page right from the start if/when registrations are turned off.
Can I just say that you've done a remarkably good job at capturing the feel of old school forums without going overboard into old school UI/UX? The spacing, font choices and just general layout feel modern enough without being overbearing. It's very pleasant to browse.