Re: Debian is testing Discourse
Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
> Not necessarily. More like that communication tends to fall apart when
> there are multiple methods of communication.
> Take this entirely anecdotal situation that happened to us this year:
> - most of the family is on facebook / email, so sent them an electronic
> invitation to a Christmas party
> - one aunt doesnt, so we mailed out a card.
> Got told after Thanksgiving that aunt felt left out as people were
> talking about it over that holiday (our party is early / mid-december;
> well before "office parties" and the like). Called her up, and it
> turned out she never got the invitation.
Same example from my circle of friends and aquaintances:
- some use WhatsApp
- some use Facebook
- some use Mail (like me)
There is a bit of overlap between the first two and nearly everyone in
the first two groups also has a mail account, but interestingly not all.
What now happens if some activitiv is planned depends on in which group
initator is, that is the circle that mostly plans and decides stuff, and
then maybe some time later, this is also relayed through the other
channels.
And as you might imagine, this creates failures in commication, for
example a BBQ was planned, but only the WhatsApp-People and some
Facebookies where there, because the Mail-Guys got the message far too
late.
Or in the other direction, a game evening was planned via mail, but
nobody relayed that to the people who don't read their mail account
daily.
Etc. Etc.
10 years ago, WhatsApp didn't exist (OK, it came out in 2009, but in
2010 nobody was using it) and only email was used in our group and those
kind of problems didn't exist, because only one communications channel
was used.
Grüße,
Sven.
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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
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