Is a tidier chat app worth moving our eight-person hobby group?
Technology‘Where is Saturday happening?’ Ben asked in our model-making chat. The address was twenty-three messages above, between a paint-colour debate and a cat sitting in a kit box. I pasted it again, then suggested an app with separate spaces for plans and casual chat.
Three other people said yes. Two did not reply. Ben would use whichever we picked. The seventh member asked whether eight friends meeting twice a month really needed another account and app.
The new app looks tidy in my test group. It only contains my messages. Nobody has missed a session in the old chat, but I book the room and keep retyping the address.
Should we try moving for a month, or agree a clearer final-plan message where we already are? I may be trading the job of pasting an address for the job of teaching everyone a new interface. I would also miss the cat.