Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
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Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
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Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
#2The people who clamor about IRC's death evidently don't spend much time in FOSS communities, especially system software. It's absolutely pivotal in those areas.
Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
#3I know of at least one tech company using slack as a support channel. It's not a great experience for the user at all. I love slack as a company communications platform but I totally agree that it's not well suited to being used as an open communications platform.
Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
#4Amen. To add to the list, there's also Bitlbee (https://www.bitlbee.org) that acts as an other protocol (AIM, MSN, XMPP/Jabber, Twitter, etc.) to IRC translator, so you can consolidate all your short messaging into one IRC client. The ZNC + Bitlbee combination is quite powerful.
Additionally for iOS users, there's a push notification client available for ZNC, which is pretty handy.
Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
#5Completely agreed. I love Slack and it makes sense for a lot of things, but not for FOSS projects. If you're looking for a great IRC Client look into IRCCloud[1]. It has a really nice and easy-to-use interface plus it allows you to be always logged in, just like with Slack.
[1]: http://irccloud.com
Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
#6To add to this, don't use Gitter for FOSS projects either. I've been seeing lots of projects abandon IRC for Gitter.
Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
#7Isn't another huge thing that Slack solves the need to set up a local client? Why is that not addressed in this article, I wonder if the author really doesn't see it as a problem?
Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
#8Isn't another huge thing that Slack solves the need to set up a local client? Why is that not addressed in this article, I wonder if the author really doesn't see it as a problem?
There are lots of web-based IRC clients out there
Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
#9And same goes for hipchat.
Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
#10> Problems with IRC that Slack solves
Main thing that Slack solves as far as I'm concerned is a great and uniform client on every platform.
Don't get me wrong, I love irc. This is where I started learning everything I know about computer.
I tried many times to get various team on it and it always failed. I think it's mainly because the learning curve is too big for non-technical/busy people, and that there's no good and uniform clients on all platform.