Thanks, Jay. Yeah, I hear you on all that and it’s what we do currently.
But as I wrote elsewhere today, there are times when personal messages and group messaging make sense.
Notably, it’s a goal of ours to limit the number of categories and we think carefully before we create more of them. We want to open up channels of communication that are direct and non-public for alot of different groupings of people, and it becomes an admin nightmare to keep track of all these groups and secure categories.
Also, people get really (and I mean really) confused about the difference between groups and categories on discourse. So why do that to them?