NetNewsWire is Moving from Slack to Discourse

NetNewsWire is saying goodbye to Slack and bringing its community to Discourse:

Slack’s been pretty great for us, but it does have some limitations: conversations are automatically deleted and they’re not findable on the web in the first place.

I've been saying the same thing for a while already (1, 2). Closed chat communities are bad, and I will stand my ground:

Messages disappear into the scroll, and good answers get buried in the side threads. It’s like a never-ending group chat - great for real-time energy, but terrible for knowledge that needs to stick around.

That’s why forums still matter.

Forums and comments create structure. They’re searchable, linkable, and persistent. A thoughtful post from three years ago can still help someone today. A conversation can grow over time. And when people contribute there, they’re not just answering a question - they’re building something others can return to.