@evan
> sometimes, I want to have an open conversation with everyone. Sometimes, I want to talk to people who are directly working on a problem
This seems perfectly reasonable on the face of it. How does it relate to;
> "unifying dev discussions with forum federation"
Are you responding to the bit where I argued for public conversations as default? In case it's not clear (and I'm pretty sure I spelled this out), I'm not arguing against private conversations happening at all.