# Building Communities That Think **URL:** \ **Category:** Blog\ **Created:** [September 4, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-communities-that-think/381612 "2025-09-04T17:13:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nukeador/32/107477_2.png) [@nukeador](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nukeador)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 10:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-communities-that-think/381612/3 "2026-09-29T10:47:48Z")
I totally missed this post when it was posted last year. It is pointing one of the main problems that I have seen in the online communities that I’ve been involved in the past five to seven years, where most of the interactions have been moved to real time communication channels (telegram, slack, whatsapp…), and that has drastically changed the culture of the community. One of the main problems that I see is that once the community dynamics have changed to using mainly real time communication, it is very difficult to get people to engage back into a synchronous channels. Even for the topics that require a more slow pace reflection, people now default to the chat rooms where it’s obviously not the right place to have a proper discussion. This also creates a new barrier for the people who don’t have all the time in the world to engage with a very fast paced medium where you probably have hundreds of messages per day. One of the biggest challenges for me is how to turn an synchronous channel (like discourse forums) into a place where people want to engage again, and not only a place where I can post summaries of what has happened on the chat rooms and nobody engages. Anyone has experiences in this area, and what are your best tips and tricks? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-communities-that-think/381612)._