It does feel like after SLMS got rid of Slack, Discourse never really replaced it properly and that Telegram never got the traction, it would make sense to use Discord now for SLMS comms, as well as Discord, and maybe consider renaming Discord as the forum so that people don’t get confused.
There was this idea that Discorse could be our everything and that just wasn’t health for the community many people called out issues like the difficulty in making decisions, Dermot has pointed out how difficult it is to interject in a conversation.
I’ve noted how difficult it is to find documentation due to the abysmal search system.
It would make sense to have a forum, real time chat, content platform/wiki and a blog.
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That way real time chat can be used to ping for peoples attention, and discuss things collectively as well as using video/audio features.
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Forum for longer form discussions that need documenting, something real time isn’t good at.
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A content platform or wiki for official documentation of processes, policies, practices, guides, how-tos, etc…
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A blog for announcements and news.
Currently all of this happens in one place and it doesn’t work well, even if it is passable.