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Re: P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free

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Post by bartvk » Sat, Aug 08, 2020, 5:24 PM UTC

cloudmike wrote: post #3

I used to work at WordPress.com (Automattic) after they acquired our startup Simplenote. P2 was great. Now I'm at one of the big tech companies that is suddenly all-remote. I miss P2. It gives you a place where ideas can "stick" much better than with async chat, email, or wikis. At the top-level (per-team or per-project) P2s feel like much more than just another wiki aggregation page. You actually want to visit them…

SimpleNote is awesome. Reliably, natively on all platforms, and: for years and years now.

Re: P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free

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Post by galaxyLogic » Sat, Aug 08, 2020, 6:11 PM UTC

lukethomas wrote: post #34

theNJR wrote: post #26

Lots of comments on 1,000+ people teams. What about sub 100? We are fully distributed. Lots of Slack and Zoom. Trying to create a central source of truth in Notion but that feels very static. Any smaller teams using this?

Any wiki software suffers from the problem that only a small percentage of the company uses it. It's essentially a tax on the most productive people. If someone asks you for the same thing 8x, you will write it down and share it via a wiki. I've spend years trying to solve the problem - how do you get the average person writing more at work? What I've come up with resembles a company "journal", but helps you automate…

> how do you get the average person writing more at work?

Some people have many answers, but other people have many questions. So I think encouraging people to ask more (even stupid) questions might be a way to get the discussion going.

Re: P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free

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Post by westi » Sat, Aug 08, 2020, 8:08 PM UTC

kingkool68 wrote: post #30

westi wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The previous version was a theme and is still available - https://wordpress.org/themes/p2/ This version is also a theme and will be released for self hosting in future too.

Wait so there was the old P2 and now there is the new P2 but at one point there was O2 which was supposed to be the next version of P2 https://geto2.com/ ?

Yes. The technology that made up o2 powers p2 now.

Re: P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free

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Post by jagannathtech » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 3:24 AM UTC

arrty88 wrote: post #39

Anyone remember forums? I have been floating the idea in my org that forums are so much better than slack/discord, and we have regressed in our communication abilities. Topics. Sub forums. View unread, link to posts, quoting, attachments. Voting. Reply by email. So many great things came from forums.

Forums were great. Unfortunately the realtime chat eclipsed it. Then everyone went to Facebook groups.