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I hate endless chats. Not matter if it is work or my personal life. If I need to do focused work, I switch off Slack. At the same time, I love emails with long, detailed, well-thought points.

So, for my team (after trying quite a few options, with Slack being a no-go), I went for Basecamp. To a large extend, it is email-like, with chat and to-do lists as features (so can be used when needed), not - the core.

However - do you know some BC-like tools for community building (edu/gaming)? Discord is considered the go-to solution, but it lacks "posts" for more focused content.

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I’m nothing like you. I hate emails, no matter if it is work or my personal life. I don’t like to check, manage and reply to them. I feel anxious when people send them to me. In a team setting I would also hate that the sender, not the recipient decides what they want to read.

At the same time I love endless chats (within proper channels). They don’t distract me from my work. I don’t participate when I need to focus and other than that, well the communication is also my work, just as important as writing code.

As to your community question, how about a subreddit?

A subreddit is another thing I consider. Pro: discussion threads (actual threads, not only linear). Cons: no inline images, and for small/mid-sized communities it can be a ghost town.

You get inline images and other things with RES https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

I can't imagine using the website without it. Sadly, it's not available on Safari.

Hello fellow Basecamp user Automatic check-ins are the killer feature for me. Nothing like getting the pulse of your team at regular intervals

As for your question, my first thought was Discourse. It's a modern day forum. Posts, threads, the whole shebang. Has badges and leaderboards too.

https://www.discourse.org/

I've heard good things about Twist as well. Though I haven't used it yet.

https://twist.com/

Honestly forums are your best bet. Discourse-based ones are especially popular.

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