I don't think it is a bad idea to have multiple communication channels .. every new user can pick whatevery they like most ..
This is a valid point as long as user is aware of all option. We have to make sure, that new user unconsciously will not pick random channel, which is the least used.
A lot of users approach bitshares via this forum. For me I remember the first place where I tried to find some direct help... was forum's chat. No one was there. If forum's chat is not used at all, that mean chat lost the race, and should be removed for the good of the community. Right now chat bring only more confusion.
How could we possible create a decentralized ecosystem if we have a centralized gathering point that has had outages already?
Can you guys remember what happend when bitcointalk went down?
I we want to build a decentralized ecosystem... that mean that all nodes need to be connected somehow. (CC:
@cass) We should have separate section on bitshares.org where all known and used communication channels should be listed. Then... we could call all of it as
Strategy. Right now this looks like a mess, not a distributed or decentralized communication channels.
@roadscape could you add to cryptofresh.com a list of all communication channels with stats? How many messages were sent in last day, how many participants said something, how long was a message (on average). With something like that... this could look like a decentralization.