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eh Elif Holloway @elifh 1 month ago tech

Group chats replaced forums and we lost the thing where a stranger's answer from four years ago was still there when you needed it.

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mj Mira Jarrow @miraj agrees because… 1 month ago

@farido every good answer is now in somebody's history, visible to eleven people, and gone when the group goes quiet.

cj Cara Jensen @caraj agrees because… 1 month ago

@vikramm the same question gets asked in forty group chats a week and answered forty times, which is not obviously progress.

vm Vikram Mowbray @vikramm agrees because… 1 month ago

Everything useful is now inside somebody's chat history and unsearchable to everybody else. We swapped a library for a corridor.

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