How makers stay productive

Slack.

It provides the convenience and casualness of realtime chat + the organization of a forum! Telegram groups are too much for me to handle, I can't take reading 1k unread messages after a day away…

@sergio I agree. I'm thinking about starting a type of group, and I know Telegram is popular, but I've always struggled to understand the appeal. Like you described, it's basically a single stream.

I like Slack, but I wish you could assign roles. I like Discord because of said roles/tags, and how much control you have over, well, everything. But I fear that it can appear a little niche/game-y to people if the group isn't gaming-oriented, and if people have no prior exposure to Discord, or aren't sort of…in the know? 😅 #mightbeoverthinking

Keybase is cool, but unless you're sendin' nudes…. 😂

Discord! (We used to use Slack a lot but we now prefer Discord for the following reasons)

• Onboarding is waaay easier
• User roles are right on the sidebar
• DM's are simpler/better designed
• Messages don't get deleted (you aren't always bothered to upgrade)

We built our Studio Discord to almost 600 members in just a a few months. Feel free to check it out if anybody would like to join. https://discordapp.com/invite/xUbxaGh

@davecraige It's nice to hear your perspective, because what you've bulleted is consistent with what I think about Discord. I've built a number of Discord servers to various ends, and never really found myself wanting for functionality.

I will say, though, that I wish Discord had expandable threads/replies under messages like Slack does. I like that conversations can sort of pool in that way. In the end both Slack and Discord seem like safe choices, but Discord might still have my heart, haha.

Slack for work. Discord for everything else. Simply because you can not share snippets so well with Discord.

Slack, for the same reasons @sergio stated above.

@randlocher @wassim @kerr Thanks for the input y'all 😄