bsmall2> A community hits 50 people and suddenly nobody can find anything. They start talking about “documentation” and “knowledge management systems” and maybe someone sets up a wiki that nobody uses. The real solution would be to stop having important conversations in chat, but that feels impossible because the entire culture is built around Slack now…
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/
#SlackAttack #ChatVsForums
/HT @Daojoan
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https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/
#SlackAttack #ChatVsForums
/HT @Daojoan
via @Npars01
The Death of Community Memory
I recently spent forty minutes searching through Slack trying to find a technical decision — made eight months ago — about an app that 60% of my creative life depends on...I eventually gave up and just asked someone to explain it again, which they did, poorly, because they didn’t quite remember either.
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