I really hope that with #communities that a lot of the offchain chat comes back.

I don't use discord, or telegram, or slack. I prefer the forum life and that's how I think if Steem.

When the chat is off chain it feels like people are having important discussions without you.

I know I could join, but time is scarce and I would rather focus on my projects.

Also, those large platforms are not anti-fragile, blockchain and distributed social 'should' be.

If one Steem frontend goes down, there are plenty more to switch to and access the same blockchain.