[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[Steve Phillips]

I strongly agree with what meejah said, FWIW -- Slack is a fantastic
product that is ill-suited for large open source projects.

--Steven

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:31 AM, meejah <meejah at meejah.ca> wrote:

> 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
>
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