Just curious - is there any consideration of supporting a Slack-like community in addition to the forum-based platform? One of my favorite things about the #rstats Twitter community is that, as a feed, I often happen across interesting and useful tidbits that I wasn't specifically looking for. Something Slack-like would have the same novelty/discoverability of Twitter but would be superior in searchability/preservation.
I do like the forum format as it's very well-organized, but it seems less easy to stumble across interesting topics.