[Talk-us] Slack

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Luis Villa <luis at lu.is> wrote:

> +0.5 to Slack. It's clearly better than IRC on a number of fronts, but if
> it replaces publicly browseable/searchable interfaces, information can be
> lost for the casual folks who are the lifeblood of a community. (Meeting
> announces there won't be seen by the public, for example.) This usually
> isn't a problem for IRC since it is so clearly unfit for that purpose.
>

Yeah, wasn't aware of Slack, literally, at all until this thread, and
didn't even bother to check it out until I saw it mentioned on /r/furry
around the same moment a coworker found it independently and sent me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6sSa5NpqUI

I think it'd be an improvement over Hipchat for office environments
(seriously don't like Hipchat, but it's not my call) but I can't really see
myself using slack for OSM...
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