A cleaner and more accessible record & index of async conversations …
… reduces the toil in consuming that record from all participants …
… at the small cost of a different tool …
… for slightly higher or highest stake comms …
… such as between RFC Shepherds or Nix / X Team members …
… in which external observers play an important part …
… in the effectiveness and legitimacy of decision making …
… as well as where work needs to be both, encouraged & done.
Substitutes & Overlaps:
Matrix
Comment: matrix has strong elements of ephemeral chatter and therefore a different use case
GitHub Issue Discussions
Comment: linear history has been a point of contention for multifariously structured topics of discussion
Discourse
Comment: strong at in-context cross-referencing and announcements, but suffers from the same linearity as GitHub; its label system is no adequate substitute for ad-hoc team & topic structure