An open source project I'm involved with is thinking about its communications future, since we're currently on Google Groups and have been nervous about it for

An open source project I'm involved with is thinking about its communications future, since we're currently on Google Groups and have been nervous about it for a while. The leading contenders for us are either groups.io for a more email-list-focused setup, or Discourse, for a more web-forum focus but that has a (hopefully decent?) email-only interface. For "realtime" chat, which we don't really do today but are getting pressured to have something, we are thinking gitter.im Most of us grew up on either Usenet or Majordomo/Mailman lists and still have an email-first preference, since once the message is delivered anyone can handle it in their own workflow and with their own tools.