At work we had to sponsor a tiny community user group because Slack search on free accounts is really curbed. This is another reason I think some things being in a more async, but also relaxed environment with full text search (and google!) being able to bring things out of the depths is worthwhile.
But also the memes and shitposts too :)
So you have chat on one end and 2,000 word blog posts on the other end of the spectrum, with meme-wars and photoshop battles somewhere inbetween.
If I remember, it is limited to saving 10,000 messages. Steemit Inc sponsored paid licenses of Slack, so we had unlimited history, but it was a limited invite system.
It's a shame all commercial chat option are so freaking expensive.
And the fact we can quickly go through those without noticing shows how much of a fire hose chat systems are - one I am in for retro programming is unfollowable because by the time it is morning in my timezone about a thousand messages have been sent
That's why everyone on Hive uses Discord and the dev channels are on Mattermost.
I haven't seen those, guess they are invite-only or for core devs?
There is a dev Discord, and invite-only Mattermost.