Orleans: Better channel for discussions

[SebastianStehle]

I have the impression, that a lot of knowledge gets lost in gitter.

What is about

1. discourse
2. Slack (there is a slack for dotnetcore)
3. Discord

I think every other tool would be better, but when you are not online 100% of the time you have no chance to find the interesting discussions / topics.

[ReubenBond]

Does discord allow searching history? Gitter does, but it's not ideal (essentially googling the archive)

[ReubenBond]

Slack is paid and limits history to 10000 messages per organization for unpaid subscriptions, which means you cannot look back very far at all.

[SebastianStehle]

1. Discord: Yes, there is a search, but for me it is hard to find stuff with a search in chats, because very often you do not have very specific keywords.
2. Slack: I know, but my personal limit in gitter is 20 messages or so. I do not read everything, because it is so unstructured. And at the current rate it would be about 100 days or so.

I think discourse would be the best, like stackoverflow+discussions. I also follow react (in discord) and dotnetcore (in slack) and both solutions are very bad for knowledge management, only helpful if you have a discussion right now.

[sergeybykov]

Doesn't Teams now support external accounts? Has anybody looked into that?

[sergeybykov]

Plus, Teams has a built-in integration with StackOverflow.

[dandago]

I'd argue that information gets lost in any form of chat.

Chat is good to randomly ask/discuss things quickly. It's not good for organisation or retention of knowledge.

[veikkoeeva]

I concur with @dandago. Sitting in about 30 Slack channels, I'd say I'm lost in every one of those except the low volume ones. If I chime in, I would say not Slack since it gets much browser stuck and Gitter feels better in that regard. Otherwise I'm all open... Though Gitter is "approachable", very easy to hop in.

[dandago]

Today's announcement on Stack Overflow for Teams reminded me of this thread. The Q&A format is great to store knowledge concisely and allow it to be searched later.

While Stack Overflow for Teams is... for private teams, it seems there's also Stack Overflow for Enterprise which could be an option.

[sergeybykov]

Seems to me there isn't an agreement here or a strong desire from the community to move off Gitter. At least at this point. Let's reconsider if that changes.

I'll close this for now. Feel free to reopen with new suggestions.