[shameless plug] This is exactly why we at FastMail made Topicbox! Email is your personal memory, and it made sense to extend that to organizational memory by

[shameless plug] This is exactly why we at FastMail made Topicbox! Email is your personal memory, and it made sense to extend that to organizational memory by making mailing lists not suck. And we switched from IRC to Slack for our internal comms a while back, so we know the pros and cons :) Chat's great for real time, but not for long-term memory. https://www.topicbox.com/ https://www.topicbox.com/ [/shameless plug]