Editing NorthStar Through the Ages (section)

== The Alteration Age: Modifying and Adapting ==
FirstClass (FC) was deeply integrated into NSA’s culture and communication. FirstClass was a messaging system that was helpful for many students but also was a burden to many others. Some people enjoyed the emails and group messaging, but others prefer the Teams format that we have now. 

Tirzah, a current student at NSA, said that FC wasn't very similar to Teams because the way of sending messages was very different and not as easy. With Teams, it's pretty easy for a popular post to get over 1,000 messages. On FirstClass, this was a very phenomenal achievement and only happened a few times. The replies were also different. You had to reply to the thread as a group - it was kind of like editing a doc with other people. Everyone had their personal font and/or color so that people could know who was who. This made it easier to conduct quests because you could look at the entire thread like it was a story instead of having to sift through individual messages like in Teams. It was also easier to keep things on track that way. 

I would agree with her that Teams has a much more fluid posting system and is easier to work with. Similarly, FC had many ways to reach Mega Groups. Teams is much more divided and separated. FC had emails and MegaChats that could reach multiple people at the same time. Teams still have the same thing with their multiple group chats.