On Fri 2023-05-26 10:31:16+0200 Gert wrote:
One of the big advantages of e-mail is the asynchronity of communication, as in "I do not have to be awake to follow a discussion that started in a different timezone, and reply to it".
+1. I think discord or some other 'chat' medium is fine for "I need support for X *right now*", but horrible for longer discussions with multiple people.
One of the big disadvantages of e-mail is the asynchronity of communication, as in "this reply to something which was written many days ago is drowned by a communication thread that has long drifted to a different topic"...
And whatever we do, anything I've seen so far does not truly scale beyond "a few handful of active participants" - a mail thread with 1000 active participants will overwhelm readers as much as a teams or forums discussion, or a videocall... this is the really hard problem I see.
Yes, but at least email has threading to group subjects together so you can easily review/ignore/delete/archive. Following a long multi-participant discussion in chat rooms is nigh impossible. Even if the platform has a way to 'reply to thread', many people aren't aware of it. /Robert