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I get 100+ emails per day. I'm almost certainly not reading the multi day email chain unless someone IMs me to ask for my input on it.

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Anyone ever had a company forum? Like Discourse or similar? That seems like a better format. Chat + forum.

I think that's what Slack is supposed to be - especially with Threads. So far it's just IRC with gifs where I work.

Slack has nothing in common with forums except that they named that feature "threads." It's only to pull a chat convo aside in a chat app.

That's what email rules are for. If there is a long email chain and I am not directly @mentioned in the body of the email, it automatically gets filtered away into a separate folder and stays unread there, while my inbox stays clean and up to date.

If my participation is actually needed in the thread, I will be inevitably @mentioned by someone, and the email stays in my main inbox folder.

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