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> This means that the content inside those systems is closed. I cannot link to a discussion in a Slack channel in a tweet.

Such a shame that you can't make a link in one closed system to another closed system.

> The tools that fit this requirement best are; mailing list, issue trackers, and forums.

Mailing lists suck. They're hard to read, hard to follow, and create an endless supply of unresolved issues that everyone forgets about. Big projects using mailing lists seem to do so out of inertia rather than choice.




> Mailing lists suck. They're hard to read, hard to follow,

I find them quite easy to read using a mail/news reader and connecting via a NNTP gateway like gmane.




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