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PaperclipPerfector  10d ago (text post)   1577 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 12, 2025

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I kind of hate private group chats. I have a private group chat with friends to shoot the shit and it makes sense if I just want to keep in touch and make each other laugh, but Discord style real-time model just doesn't fit my mental model of deeper discussion:

  • If you don't have a lot of time to constantly check on it, it's hard to understand where an ongoing conversation started.
  • It's hard to follow the discussion because multiple groups of people can talk about multiple things at the same time. Thread model captures my mental model of discussion much better.
  • I don't have time to read it to an extent where I keep up with everything going on.
  • It's unsearchable - sometimes I want to find an old conversation. On Reddit, here and on forums, the conversation about a topic will be organized into a nice thread. On discord it's interspersed with some random conversation without start and end.

If it's a smaller group chat like Signal or Telegram or whatever, those problems are less prevalent but I just don't have an understanding how to join one with an anonymous group of people I don't know.

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