Short-term reminders / pings?

Clearing the Path
#1

I feel weird using this forum to ping people, such as to say: “hey @team remember meeting tomorrow!” where I wouldn’t feel as weird about email.

I guess the forum feels more connected to the archive. I see and am aware of the past posts more than with email lists where the archive I visit almost never. At IRC, I don’t mind pinging people, but it’s better if it’s actually useful to get their attention now, not just sometime-before-tomorrow.

Any thoughts? What’s the best appropriate way to balance this and be able to freely ping people reminders etc. that don’t have any value in the archive?

#2

Irc, email, or discourse PMs all work for me. I agree having a thread and @people-ing could get cluttered. However, I could also see some benefit in having that information public, depending on the extent to which we want to encourage newcomers to show up in our meetings.