I don't share the confusion, but I generally don't like the real time format. In an office setting (whether remote or not) , I think something like Discord or

I don't share the confusion, but I generally don't like the real time format. In an office setting (whether remote or not) , I think something like Discord or Slack is useful. I'm on the clock, and I know others are, too. I'm there for several hours of my day and I always have the chat window up. Outside of that type of environment, chat room style discussion don't fit well with my life. I'm busy and I value asynchronous discussion, so I want to spend 15 minutes catching up on whatever happened, say whatever I need to say, and then not be present until the next day. Trying to make that work in Discord is fatiguing if the community is active. If I'm feeling overwhelmed by life, I start trimming things that send me notifications on my phone, and Discord is always the first to be culled. Currently my Discord app sends me 0 notifications, which is the way I need it, but it's not what people tend to expect. It's hard for me to participate. I get that Discord/Slack are not at all analogous to forums, I just wish more communities gravitated to forums instead Discord. Discord obviously has its place.