In light of some large open source communities like Ghost [1] and Ember [2] concluding that Slack was cannibalising their community activity, we decided to write up our take on best practices for harmonising ephemeral (chat) and permanent (forum) discussions.<p>[1](<a href="https://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/980872508395188224" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/980872508395188224</a>)
[2](<a href="https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/should-ember-better-define-its-use-of-slack/14474" rel="nofollow">https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/should-ember-better-define-its...</a>)