[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[Víctor Gonca]

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2015-10-27 23:21 GMT+01:00 Steve Phillips <steve at tryingtobeawesome.com>:

> 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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