3 ms·
Loss of message history for one. Open Source projects can not afford to pay for archiving Slack messages. A lot of important discussions will vanish.
by wstrange 11y ago
Loss of message history for one.
Open Source projects can not afford to pay for archiving Slack messages. A lot of important discussions will vanish.
- avar 11y agoI'm no fan of Slack, but it has IRC and XMPP gateways. You can trivially set up an IRC bot that logs your channels & conversations, I connect to Slack via irssi & use its standard logging facility. So you're no more likely to lose your logs via Slack than via IRC or XMPP if you set things up correctly.
- unimpressive 11y agoSo what you're saying is, Slack works great as long as you're willing to perform some 'uber geekery'? ;)
- aeze 11y agoI don't know if I'd consider that 'uber geekery'... it's just setting up an IRC client - they provide instructions on the slack website.
- avar 11y agoHow do you think open source projects have preserved message history on the existing open source alternatives discussed in this thread (IRC & Jabber)? You set up & maintain your own logging bots.
- Bjartr 11y agoIf writing a bot is a reasonable solution for IRCs shortcomings, then writing a Slack bot to do long term archiving of messages is also reasonable .
- st3v3r 11y agoSlack's ToS specifically prevents doing that. Which, is reasonable, as if that's what they're selling, how would they make any money?