Cordless Project Closes Down

kordlessagain wrote: post #3

m-p-3 wrote: post #2

That's sad to see a open source project closing down like this :(

What is sad is that we have another corporate entity acting aggressively to user-centric efforts.

It's frustrating too because both Slack and Discord fail to adequately provide either multi-account or at least multi-client on the same host in a nice way. Because of the Slack workspace/Discord server sprawl I always run into a situation where I want to login to the community/people/work that I am focused in but some days you just need to be in two different scopes at once.

Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

#8

Post by jbirer » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 7:00 PM UTC

I disagree with the closure. They should fight Discord to provide an open source alternative client for a closed system who is attempting to trap their users.

Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

#9

Post by vertis » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

It really is time to start a push to move open communities to open source software. Running a whole bunch of open communities out of slack and discord has always surprised me.

Slack is particularly bad with making anything longer than 10k messages inaccessible. The amount of internet history being lost in these groups is boggling.

Re: Cordless Project Closes Down

#10

Post by james_pm » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 7:23 PM UTC

vertis wrote: post #9

It really is time to start a push to move open communities to open source software. Running a whole bunch of open communities out of slack and discord has always surprised me. Slack is particularly bad with making anything longer than 10k messages inaccessible. The amount of internet history being lost in these groups is boggling.

The message history is all there, held hostage by Slack. Clearly it's not a burden for them to store it or they would simply delete everything past 10,000 messages rather than still storing it and reminding me frequently that they have it if I ever decide to pay.