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Ask HN: Why are forums not populair for company collaboration
I like slack for sure but I hate it for more in depth conversations and I can't really backtrack any discussions being made at a certain point of time.
Some companies I worked had a forum and I loved it, why do forums get used less and are chat tools so popular? Does your company use a forum?
- xfalcox 7y agoDisclaimer: I work at Discourse, so I'm totally biased :p We use a Discourse for: - Support, feature proposals/discussion, bug tracking at https://meta.discourse.org/ https://meta.discourse.org/ - Commit reviews https://review.discourse.org/ https://review.discourse.org/ - Shared inbox for email support - Company planning at an internal instance And we see a growing need for better tools for company collaboration. It's even greater if you work on a distributed, remote team that spans dozens of timezones like us. Chat doesn't cut a discussion that can span months, years. Or when you want to actually put tough into an argument, bringing paragraphs, links, multimedia content, etc. We have a few blog posts about it: https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/ https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-u... https://blog.discourse.org/2018/04/effectively-using-discourse-together-with-group-chat/ https://blog.discourse.org/2018/04/effectively-using-discour... And a new one coming soon about teamwork.