Would be great if there was a means of displaying the telegram chatter in the forum; maybe like a chat box or display panel or something similar, not official threads or posts but a way to display the activity on other channels for people who land on the forum
Not a bad idea. Some type of snapshot or brief "forum window" into Telegram perhaps.
Problem is the 2 apps differ on a very fundamental level, that being time. That's why I rarely use the (DEX or DEV) channel on Telegram, it is just way more traffic than I can keep up with. Often there is over 1000 posts since I looked at it the last time. I have to scroll a lot to get to the current activity. If I'm not interested in that it makes no sense to comment on something that took place an hour or more ago, those people might not even be logged in anymore.
Plus as has been said, Telegram provides no way to capture conversation history.
Telegram is fantastic however for issues / problems that need to be dealt with in real time. This is what brought it into use in the first place and why @spartaco created the interface between Telegram and the BitShares blockchain.
I'm just not much of a fan of "troll boxes" and fast moving or abbreviated twitter / SMS like chatter. I understand why that is appealing to younger people who have been immersed in that from an early age, but I'm old school and I tend to be on the TLDR end of the spectrum of communication.
When we shortcut and abbreviate our language meaning is lost and communication breaks down and misunderstandings increase. Effective communication takes longer when participating parties don't share the same base of knowledge, and the wider the audience the more likely that's the case. It is unreasonable to expect a fast "telepathy" level of conveying understanding of concepts from one mind to another using language as the medium by reducing the amount of time to conduct the transfer, especially when the audience is large.