I like slack for sure but I hate it for more in depth conversations and I can't really backtrack any discussions being made at a certain point of time.<p>Some companies I worked had a forum and I loved it, why do forums get used less and are chat tools so popular? Does your company use a forum?
Disclaimer: I work at Discourse, so I'm totally biased :p<p>We use a Discourse for:<p>- Support, feature proposals/discussion, bug tracking at <a href="https://meta.discourse.org/" rel="nofollow">https://meta.discourse.org/</a><p>- Commit reviews <a href="https://review.discourse.org/" rel="nofollow">https://review.discourse.org/</a><p>- Shared inbox for email support<p>- Company planning at an internal instance<p>And we see a growing need for better tools for company collaboration. It's even greater if you work on a distributed, remote team that spans dozens of timezones like us. Chat doesn't cut a discussion that can span months, years. Or when you want to actually put tough into an argument, bringing paragraphs, links, multimedia content, etc.<p>We have a few blog posts about it:<p><a href="https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-u...</a><p><a href="https://blog.discourse.org/2018/04/effectively-using-discourse-together-with-group-chat/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.discourse.org/2018/04/effectively-using-discour...</a><p>And a new one coming soon about teamwork.