Starting groups

Slack

• Easy to get started
• Tech-related people familiar with it
• No onboarding
• Discussions feel boring
• Even with a lot of people, can turn into low engagement
• Can be overwhelming to people who like to keep ‘inbox zero’
• No personality
• Free version has only 90 day history
• Very oriented to hierarchical relationships

Luma

• (These features are no longer available)
• More oriented to events, which is good
• Newsletter
• Profiles
• Because it’s not a place people already are, easy to forget to check
• Not much to ‘come back to’ - no dynamic content

Signal

• More like a group text