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We are overdue for the return of the more intimate communities of yore. Especially since their content can be indexed, greatly improving discoverability and longevity of shared knowledge. Big fan of both Discourse (RoR) and Xenforo (PHP) as off the shelf community solutions.

Do you think that async apps like Slack/Discord qualify as intimate communities?

They may be intimate but they are objectively bad for the needs of a community like yalls. They are walled gardens with poor accessibility and discoverability. Information cannot be indexed by tools like search engines or wayback machine.

yes and no, in my opinion the old ways never work, the future of professional communities is not in the past 🙃

Agreed, but I also wonder what the future of professional communities has to offer if it's not already here.

I deeply miss forums but it's hard to beat the convenience of social media and discord communities

I was part of a nice forum, it still exists and is active but I don't use that piece of software anymore. From time to time we did meetings in real life, that was fun! I'm curious what atproto will do in this area.