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For organizations yes, and even more so for open-source software or other community-based projects. Mailing lists are there for all time, for people to search and find solutions in past discussions. Slack is instant, but essentially ephemeral. You might get an answer for your stacktrace or crash if someone is online who knows, but nobody in the future benefits from that conversation. Really sad...



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