Here's combined forum + chat + question & answers software that you might want to use instead of Slack: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/ https://www.

Here's combined forum + chat + question & answers software that you might want to use instead of Slack: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/ https://www.effectivediscussions.org/ (ED) It's open source. It seems to solve the problems mentioned in the article (I mean, openly accessible — can link to a discussion & (soon) to a post in a chat channel. Both sync & async communication (both chat and traditional forum topics). I'm actually just about to a-little-bit start promoting it. ... Ok so let me try to make you more interested in ED: - Often, organizations setup a chat (e.g. Slack), a forum (e.g. Discourse) + use e.g. StackOverflow — but then they've split their community into three. However with EffectiveDiscussions (ED) you can gather everyone at one place. - ED is looking to improve the quality of the discussions. For example, there's a novel voting system that solves (I hope) problems related to people downvoting-because-they-disagree, + a novel algorithm for finding the "best" comments (in threaded HN style topics). Plus some other improvements over HN & Reddit, see https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-3-things https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can... (As you might have guessed, I'm the one developing ED.)