Group chats are great for keeping up with small groups of people. One problem with group chats is that things can get lost in the noise, given that they're an unstructured (flat) chronological column of messages. This results in the need for people to make new dedicated chats for specific purposes, such as a "trip planning" chat to get away from the main chat which is inundated with memes and TikTok links.
On WeWrite App , communities won't be structured like a chat. They'll be a collection of shared pages. That way, there's a permanence to each utterance, and each utterance is in its place.
Below is a representation of the same group of people i a group chat on the left and in a WeWrite community on the right.
The chronology of the group chat is obvious; most recent at the bottom of the list, oldest towards the top.
The chronology of the WeWrite community is on a per-page basis, where each page is a mosaic of old and new writings. The version history of each page is shown as a timeline below each page.
Referring to the examples prior, perhaps there could be a "trip planning" page for serious planning and a "memes" page for silly memes and TikTok links and whatever else.
You could argue that this could be accomplished with Google Docs. No friend group would adopt that. That's dumb and silly. Google Docs is for office nerds and organizations.
WeWrite imagines a personal social wiki experience that's as fun and social as goofing off with friends in iMessage.
The Republic of Letters was kinda like an old-school group chat.