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by PaulHoule 1688 days ago
I wouldn’t use that headline.

I worked at a startup that had 10 or 12 groupware tools when I started. Every two weeks or so the problem that people couldn’t find anything would come up in an all-hands and they’d suggest we add another tool and management would say yes and then we would have 11 or 13 groupware tools.

We don’t need another place to have discussions, we need ‘one ring to rule them all’ that brings them together, curated them, makes them findable.

That’s the direction where you are going. It is immensely valuable but it is also going against the flow.

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I understand, I've been in the same situation before, not recommending it to anyone. Having more than 2 or 3 tools is like having no tool at all or worst. This idea was born more for Open Source communities or hobbyst, etc. rather than companies. So yeah I agree the headline here is a little bit misleading in that sense.

Usually these kind of communities probably need that their content should be indexable by Google or other search engines in order to be discovered by new users. So in my mind it shouldn't dilute the attention of the community members. Of course it's still a proof of concept and every feedback is super welcomed to understand better the environment

I think you’re on the right track.