[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[meejah]

Tom Lowenthal <me at tomlowenthal.com> writes:

> Slack is indeed a *very good* way to communicate and that's why so
> many people use it.

I think it's a decent way for *private teams* to communicate, and that's
why so many businesses use it. For "open" projects/teams, it seems
rather terrible to me: you have to pay money for each person you
"invite" *or* you rely on whatever-the-free-tier provides.

Also, Slack doesn't like large communities it seems:

   http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html

So, even ignoring the (quite valid) criticisms about closed-source
software and putting All The Things into Slack's servers it seems that
an "open communitiy" isn't really a use-case for Slack.

That is: Slack is *not* "IRC with a nice Web interface" -- it's "we
didn't want to set up our own private Jabber/etc server, so we paid
Slack instead".

Also, FWIW, I totally agree that "we" should be leading by example by
using whatever is the best free/open "communicate in public with groups"
software **even if** the very best free/open option is completely
terrible vs. some proprietary option...because if this community can't
(or won't) use it, who will?

-- 
meejah