Hey Tribe, I want to run a quick poll using emojis (Use 📝 or 👾). 🤔 If I had to clone a product for the new home of the RI community, which one would you prefer. 📝 Forum based website like Indiehacker, Dev.to 👾 Chat-based community like Slack, Discord Also, feel free to share additional thoughts in the thread 🧵

We could do both! There are a bunch of use cases that cover both forms of communication

I've personally noticed that I tend to forget about forum based websites and spend less time there due to the friction involved in participating in discussions. Slack, Discord on the other hand are really quick and easy to use.

Should we support anonymous questions? (questions only). For people who would hesitate to share specific details but would like the opinions of RI users.

can have both. faqs can be on the forum. chats for ephemeral conversations

☝🏽 I was thinking the same. FIRC, tax guides, interviews, webinars etc on Website. All discussions on slack.

FIRC should have a separate forum for itself 😂

Some recurring conversations: • taxation (44AD, GST) • insurance • receiving money • Equipment purchases (laptop/monitor/desk)

Discord is honestly the best platform. It's free, unlimited, and has none of the freemium nonsense like Slack does. And the paid features (Discord Nitro) are 100% non essential. My only problem was that Threads weren't available on it, but as of today, it's a live feature.

I like Indiehacker's layout 🙂

Forums have a tendency to become unmanageable and needs lots of moderation to keep functioning, IMO. And you might have to wade through pages and pages of discussion to get the answers you're seeking. That is a reason stackoverflow became popular overnight - the relevant answers floated to the top. Real-time chat + summary blogs/FAQs for burning topics would be a good balance for the kind of issues discussed here, IMO. People should be able to submit changes to the FAQs (some wiki or markdown based platform - github pages?) but changes should be approved by chosen maintainers to maintain quality of content.