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by SECProto 1823 days ago
Those advantages (offline file storage, sorting by subtopics and threads, access to things from before you were even a member) sounds largely like forum software from ~20 years ago too, which only required decent hardware on the server side. Integrated chat and forum software (with office software thrown in to boot). The original comment I had made was about MSN Messenger being functionally equivalent to Google chat.