> I suspect that an old-school web forum like phpBB could work well It’s funny that you say this, but at Automattic (where I work), we use a tool called p2 [0]

> I suspect that an old-school web forum like phpBB could work well It’s funny that you say this, but at Automattic (where I work), we use a tool called p2 [0] which is built on WordPress blogs. So it’s basically a blog with real-time comments, and each team/division has their own p2. As our saying goes, “p2 or it didn’t happen” — and it’s probably the main thing that keeps communication healthy. It’s easy to follow the set of blogs applicable to your work, easy to cross-post to other blogs, it’s globally searchable, and easily sharable. Thus it avoids the problems you mention with email and slack. We use slack a lot as well, but few use email at all. Like you say, it works because everyone buys into it and uses it. - [0]: https://wordpress.com/p2/ https://wordpress.com/p2/