On 12/10/23 19:39, Arthur A. Gleckler wrote:
> I have to say that I absolutely loathe Discord, Slack, and other chat
> clients.  None of them has a proper inbox in the standard UIs, so I'm
> constantly scanning old messages to see whether I've seen them
> already.  That is an enormous waste of time.  Yes, they sometimes mark
> messages as read, but there's nothing as definitive and easy to scan
> as a standard email inbox.  And Slack and most chat clients privilege
> live interaction, which means that the conversation always feels
> "over" by the time I arrive.
>
> I'm a dinosaur, and I love email.

I have seen a lot of arguments in this thread against Slack or whatever.

As a counterpoint I haven't seen mentioned:

1. The accessibility benefits that come with Discourse and chat systems
like xmpp. instead of IRC/email.

2. The newcomers that may encourage to be involved to the development of
scheme. If these are wanted of course.

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