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Forums aren't really more inherently "old-school" than instant messages. A flashy new version of AIM is popular, a flashy new forum could be too. I think the
by majormajor 6y ago
Forums aren't really more inherently "old-school" than instant messages.
A flashy new version of AIM is popular, a flashy new forum could be too.
I think the difference here is that forums were popular for communities where people were active at different times, while chat was real-time. For in-person offices, things then trended after the physical real-time nature.
If people stay more remote after this, though, and time zones are less uniforms, I think that's ripe for a change.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoHow is slack not a flashy forum?
- majormajor 6y agoThe most immediate way Slack is more "flashy AIM" than "flashy forum" is that threads don't bump back to the top when they get recent activity. If someone replies to someone else's message in a thread and it scrolls off my view, they could have a 50+ message conversation in there that I would never see. In a "traditional" forum, if a topic is that hot, it'll stay on top of the topic list. Even in a more threaded forum like HN, where ordering is done separately, when I refresh, I'd see there were more replies on a hot sub-thread, in a way that can disappear entirely in Slack.