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Slack really needs to gift open source projects with a large userbase who use Slack 100% free, with the catch being no private rooms or something, fully web sea

• mugsie 10y ago
  Slack has said they do not want open source projects to use it. It is the single most annoying thing about some projects - I get it, IRC doesn't show your emojis, but it just works.
  • yoz-y 10y ago
    I remember an article about not using slack for FOSS projects, but it was not from Slack. Would you happen to have a link for your claim? I would be quite interested why they would not want to be used by somebody. That being said I do believe that Slack is a poor choice of medium for a free project, mainly because of the limited history and no publicly searchable transcripts.
    • mugsie 10y ago
      And the fact that it costs them a fair amount of money to host large instances of slack. Can't seem to find the link, but you can see they will give discounts for non profits, up to 250 users. - https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204368833 https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204368833 Its a poor medium, as it locks projects into a walled garden ecosystem.
  • thejosh 10y ago
    Yeah, I wish they didn't either, but certain projects are mainly slack it seems. I hate it so much for this purpose. I guess I'm also apart of the problem. :P Come back to IRC, FOSS!
    • mugsie 10y ago
      yeah - i do work on 2 projects right now, one on freenode, one on slack. guess which one I look at regularly?
    • elkos 10y ago
      We recently started using Matrix with riot.im seamlessly bridged to our IRC channels. Seems pretty usable for our needs.
• Eridrus 10y ago
  Despite Slack being more polished (particularly on mobile), gitter.im seems like a much better choice for open source projects.