[fusion_cow]

Hello! Lyra also supports 1 to 1 conversations (private conversations with just one person in the audience). These are just the same as private messages.

Lyra also supports panel discussions (public read, but only a few people are allowed to comment) and blogging (private read AND private write).

[AznHisoka]

Why would I need to use this if I already have email?

[lyra_comms]

Hello! Email doesn't have hierarchical conversations, it's not efficient to add people and get them up to speed with the existing messages in a conversation, and number one: when you open your email, you're in work mode. This does not foster a relaxing chat.

[AznHisoka]

i have personal email and work email. when i open the former i am not in work mode at all. plus meaningful conversations are offen uncomfortable and not relaxing. they dont start with "whats up? how are you?"

[lyra_comms]

That's great, but most people don't separate personal and work email, and even if they do, they still build up a work-related attitude to email that comes across in personal emails too.

Plus, the main issue is that email isn't nicely formatted or hierarchical.

[AznHisoka]

why would i need email to be hierarchical if i usually have just 1 on 1 conversations? makes no sense...

[lyra_comms]

Actually it makes a lot of sense. You can have a deeply hierarchical conversation, with lots of back and forth and branching to separate threads - and yet which only contains two people.