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You should consider moving that slack to discord. Discord has unlimited server history for free with pretty good search. The only features you lose compared to slack are ones that are largely only useful for organisations. (If you do move it to discord, invite pls :P)
Discord is too associated with gamer culture which is fairly rancid.
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You should consider moving that slack to discord. Discord has unlimited server history for free with pretty good search. The only features you lose compared to slack are ones that are largely only useful for organisations. (If you do move it to discord, invite pls :P)
...Can we not have more projects move to a proprietary, closed source chat system? (And one that tracks every mouse movement you make...) Zulip, Discourse, Element(formerly Riot) / Matrix all exist and are fairly nice. And of course, IRC. Searching works well for Zulip/Element.
Hey there, I’m a member of the GitLab Community Relations team. My team is responsible for this page. I shared the page today at a DevRel meetup where OP was presenting on Hacker News. I’m grateful he chose to share it with all of you. Thanks, Dan. If there are ways we can improve how we engage with the HN community, myself and our team would love your feedback.
I think we’re I’m going is, when we see “Hi it’s Jon/Jane from gitlab …” is it a developer taking time out of their day to respond or is it a full time marketing person?
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this is a nonsense argument. you can moderate and restrict your discord channel to enforce whatever culture you want. if you don't want bad culture infesting your channel then don't let it happen. i would still suggest people use matrix over discord, but it has nothing to do with gamer culture.
Discord has a centralized profile system built around gamer culture and the idea of using a “handle” that is rightly disconnected from your identity. It has so many features designed around gaming.
You make it sound like this is a bad thing?
Letting people use handles has been a thing since way before modern gamer and it is probably the only right way if you want interesting people to share stuff.
Some (most?) of the most civil places that exist on the internet - including HN - has pseudonymity.
The only people who thrive with mandatory Real Names policies are:
- people who operate under a false but real looking name anyway (trolls etc)
- people who are squeaking clean by todays standards (and even not all of them because what about tomorrow or next week or next year?)
- people who have nothing to lose anyway or don't realize the problem of Full Name Policies.
> It has so many features designed around gaming.
It works really nice for non gaming too.
Hey there, I’m a member of the GitLab Community Relations team. My team is responsible for this page. I shared the page today at a DevRel meetup where OP was presenting on Hacker News. I’m grateful he chose to share it with all of you. Thanks, Dan. If there are ways we can improve how we engage with the HN community, myself and our team would love your feedback.
Devrel and evangelist is that a full time job or is it something a developer gets time off to do? I think we’re I’m going is, when we see “Hi it’s Jon/Jane from gitlab …” is it a developer taking time out of their day to respond or is it a full time marketing person?
Very rarely do devs at these companies feel comfortable enough to respond directly, I think, that's natural because most people aren't comfortable representing the company they work for. Usually when you see that happen, it's some coordinate effort internally to get a dev from some team to respond.
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every dev tools startup out there does this.
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Discord has a centralized profile system built around gamer culture and the idea of using a “handle” that is rightly disconnected from your identity. It has so many features designed around gaming.
> Discord has a centralized profile system built around gamer culture and the idea of using a “handle” that is rightly disconnected from your identity. You make it sound like this is a bad thing? Letting people use handles has been a thing since way before modern gamer and it is probably the only right way if you want interesting people to share stuff. Some (most?) of the most civil places that exist on the internet…
> Never submit GitLab content to Hacker News. Submission gets more credibility if a non-GitLab Hacker News community member posts it, we should focus on making our posts interesting instead of on submitting it. I appreciate this policy, it makes it clear that HN is a place to engage with the community, rather than a free advertising channel. Looking at the CEO's profile, the last time he made a submission about Gitla…
In my ideal world, most content sharing and even social media sites should be like this. Good content driving interest instead of gaming the algorithm to get clicks and views would lead to a better ecosystem of information with less noise. Although I doubt we’ll ever reach that point so I’m wondering if there are other small communities around the web that are just more quality-oriented on the content shared (I just…
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Discord has a centralized profile system built around gamer culture and the idea of using a “handle” that is rightly disconnected from your identity. It has so many features designed around gaming.
> Discord has a centralized profile system built around gamer culture and the idea of using a “handle” that is rightly disconnected from your identity. You make it sound like this is a bad thing? Letting people use handles has been a thing since way before modern gamer and it is probably the only right way if you want interesting people to share stuff. Some (most?) of the most civil places that exist on the internet…
The issue is being unable to have, under a single login, completely isolated identities for each server (or group of servers).
> It works really nice for non gaming too.
IMHO the Discord branding (specifically the copy) works great for a gaming audience but is slightly off-putting for a non-geeky audience (think non-tech business types).
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Lobsters is a good one. (You need an invite.) And I'm a member of some slacks that are just killer in terms of content and discussion. Too bad about the memory hole.
You should consider moving that slack to discord. Discord has unlimited server history for free with pretty good search. The only features you lose compared to slack are ones that are largely only useful for organisations. (If you do move it to discord, invite pls :P)
Until they pull a Google and either make it not-free, or drop it altogether. It is difficult to have any faith in the long-term prospects of all these services that depend mostly or only on the goodwill of a company.