I'm looking to create an online community for startuppers and I've seen that:
- Circle is cool but a few people remind to open it
- Fb groups are almost dead since much younger people don't use it
- Slack is often used for work
- Discord is often used for web3 communities or similar.<p>And you? What do you use more frequently (job workspaces excluded)
I do not use discord much at all. It isn't so much that the experience is bad or anything (although, yes, i'm not crazy about the centralized-centric approach of discord)...it is just that my communities don't live there.<p>Slack is more of a forced thing. My work standardizes on MS Teams, while several vendors use Slack...So i'm forced to use slack in order to get vendors to respond to urgent requests, etc.<p>But most frequently, i use discourse and matrix. Discourse more for community forum style of interaction...you know, where you can lob in a question that doesn't need an immediate response, and its fun to go back through the history of comments. While matrix is more ephemeral, closer to real-time interactions and chat. On discourse, a topic discussion might start on one day and extend the conversation over several days, maybe even a couple of weeks...maybe. While on matrix, the topic might last only a short while, and then move on....Of course, depending on how you establish your home server for matrix, one can also just have several rooms where each is dedicated to a specific topic/theme...so much like discourse a conversation can begin one day and persist attention over days, weeks.<p>I hope that helps!