Group chats were never built for clubs
I am Matthias Perrot. I race triathlon and I train with Triathlon Club de Genève.
Spend enough time around endurance clubs, any sport and any size, and the same picture keeps coming back. Club life runs on a group chat and a handful of spreadsheets, and neither was ever designed for the job.
A coach posts Tuesday's session. By the evening it has scrolled past a photo gallery, a debate about tyre pressure and someone's holiday plans. People ask where and when. The coach answers the same question four times, and two members still turn up at the wrong pool.
None of that is anyone's fault. It is simply what happens when you run an organisation inside a messaging app: everything is a message, and messages scroll away.
