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Why? Has GitHub been bad for open source software? Has Google Groups?

• wstrange 11y ago
  Both of those platforms have fairly low barriers to exit. Moving off of github is a simple clone. Google Groups is archived, and there are many other alternatives. Unless you are paying for it, Slack message history vanishes.
  • eterm 11y ago
    Whereas IRC history persists forever for free? Oh, wait.
  • rimantas 11y ago
    > Slack message history vanishes. And?
  • Karunamon 11y ago
    And IRC history doesn't? IRC doesn't even have the concept of message history. Any such thing is done by individual clients/bots. Bringing up message history as a negative is just straight-up disingenuous with that in mind - the answer to both possibilities is the same: use a bot.
  • st3v3r 11y ago
    "Unless you are paying for it, Slack message history vanishes." Same thing with IRC. With Slack, however, I can pay later, and still have access to the history. With IRC, once it's gone, it's gone.
• davexunit 11y ago
  Yes and yes.