I don’t think the Forum is likely to serve as a good “group discussion platform” at any point in the near future. This isn’t about culture so much as form; we don’t have Slack’s “infinite continuous thread about one topic” feature, which is also present on Facebook and Discord, and that seems like the natural form for an ongoing discussion to take. You can configure many bits of the Forum to feel more discussion-like (e.g. setting all the comment threads you see to be “newest first”), but it feels like a round peg/square hole situation.
On the other hand, Slack seems reasonable for this!
There is also a quite active EA Discord server, which serves the function of “endless group discussions” fairly well, so another Slack workspace might have negligible benefits.
I don’t think the Forum is likely to serve as a good “group discussion platform” at any point in the near future. This isn’t about culture so much as form; we don’t have Slack’s “infinite continuous thread about one topic” feature, which is also present on Facebook and Discord, and that seems like the natural form for an ongoing discussion to take. You can configure many bits of the Forum to feel more discussion-like (e.g. setting all the comment threads you see to be “newest first”), but it feels like a round peg/square hole situation.
On the other hand, Slack seems reasonable for this!
There is also a quite active EA Discord server, which serves the function of “endless group discussions” fairly well, so another Slack workspace might have negligible benefits.