Why do you need a forum and a mailing list ? Why are these conversations not happening on Mattermost itself? Isn’t the idea of Mattermost to replace email (and forums)?

A team based chat server serves a very different function that either forums or a mailing list. Mattermost is a chat system. It’s possible that having a chat system can take some of the load off on other mediums your team might have used, but forums service a different kind of use case and I don’t t…

I still miss something like Google Wave, where the gap between forum and chat is alsmost disappearing. Having a forum and a chat (with persistent history) means there will be two data silos. And then e.g. with Gitlab, there are also the issue comments. Three places to get lost. Hmm, I’d like to see…

So what do you expect to have happen? The forum shutdown? Abandon the issue tracker? Do everything in chat? What exactly do you suggest? You want some all-inclusive product that does issue tracking, chat, wiki, forums, handles email, shares documents and cooks eggs? Some of us are much happier with …

Why do you need a forum and a mailing list?

Troubleshooting

it33 (Ian Tien) September 25, 2015, 1:19pm 5

We want to talk to Mattermost users in whichever channel they’re most comfortable, please see related thread

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