I certainly don’t know what the future holds for clojure, but I feel that when the community adopted Slack, they lost a fundamental learning resource and talent

I certainly don’t know what the future holds for clojure, but I feel that when the community adopted Slack, they lost a fundamental learning resource and talent attractor. Why do I say this? Because very interesting and deep and enlightening conversations and explanations and questions used to be in a forum environment where threads of conversation, topically organized, were easily followed and might be resurfaced and continued years after they had gone dormant. All that is lost now. Slack was embraced, no doubt for the immediacy of response, and topical history is vanished. Everyone jumped onto slack to try it out, and people stopped checking the forum altogether. The forum is a wasteland now populated with occasional version bump announcements. Nobody bothers to post there because nobody reads it anymore. And the wisdom of the community is vaporizing as soon as it forms. It’s a massive loss, and deeply tragic. Beyond the insight and wisdom, the forum had a cohesive effect. It was a grounding, a center and base. Slack is transient stream of consciousness. Even with logs, the slack history is worthless by comparison. Until a medium of exchange develops that the community wants to adopt, which can serve as a useful knowledge aggregator, I think clojure is on the path to obscurity.