Comment by JoshTriplett

> Or, perhaps the asynch chat thing is a distraction and we need something asynchronous that's well proven. Like... email?

Real-time chat is, in fact, useful, and a separate product from email. The fact that you don't want to use it does not change the fact that others do.

I use Zulip and Signal extensively, and I use email occasionally, and none of them fully replace the use cases of the others.