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This is probably preaching to the choir, but hosting your own FOSS chat is nowadays a very viable way to avoid being dependent on a centralised service like Slack. Your options include: * Riot.im / Matrix.org (decentralised global network; e2e encryption; open protocol) * Rocket.Chat (Meteor-based; focus on UX and feature) * MatterMost.com (clone of Slack UI; open core license) * Zulip.org (all about threads!) * ...o…
Slack is currently down and I've realized, for better or worse, what Slack has really done.. It's created an expectation for immediacy. I thought about sending my question to someone via email but then just thought, "I'll wait for Slack to be back up, it'll be faster anyhow".
"Slack is down? Better post to Slack and let the team know."
This is probably preaching to the choir, but hosting your own FOSS chat is nowadays a very viable way to avoid being dependent on a centralised service like Slack. Your options include: * Riot.im / Matrix.org (decentralised global network; e2e encryption; open protocol) * Rocket.Chat (Meteor-based; focus on UX and feature) * MatterMost.com (clone of Slack UI; open core license) * Zulip.org (all about threads!) * ...o…
We are aware of connectivity issues and are actively lnvestigating. 3:58 PM PDT・See in your timezone They spelled investigating with a lower-case 'l' :\ Does that bug anyone other than me?
When your hands are shaking from adrenaline because your pre-IPO company is suffering from a global outage, you might hit an l instead of an i.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anyone who doesn't know, Slack actually runs off the IRC protocol underneath the hood. [citation needed]
Pretty sure they provide an IRC interface, but almost certainly don't use IRC internally. There's almost no way they could support any of their fancier features using IRC. Reactions etc would be horrible to implement.
I'm expecting them to completely turn off the IRC gateway in the next year or two.
Also curious: why is this so low on the front page? 250 points, posted an hour ago...
I'm not really a Slack user, but isn't Keybase always an option?
Wow, talk about realising how much we rely on Slack.. suddenly I feel so disconnected and alone. https://www.customd.com/articles/65/slack-is-down
Slack has a nice market share, but also many competitors, many of them 100% ripoffs with the same features (to name a few, Attlassian HipChat and MS Teams... not to mention open source products). Slack has been experiencing service degradation often lately, so I would not be surprised if people start switching. In our team we already started looking for an alternative.
HipChat came out long before Slack.