Hello. I have recently become the convener of a community group of about 20 people.

We are only going to meet monthly and I would like a better way of communicating with people other than email.

I would like to be able to do messaging, share links and images, and maybe have sub groups for various projects that we work on. For free, I have a budget of $0.

We all have email accounts but with a variety of domain suffixes. I would like to avoid having everyone to join gmail or outlook or facebook, but just use their own email account.

My knowledge of this space is pretty limited, but I have heard of Discord and Slack.

Is there any other platform I should be considering? And is Discord really just for gamers?

Thank you.