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As a user, I was very disappointed to see that the gateways must be enabled by the project owner, not by the users themselves. In the end none of the Slack grou
by ge0rg 9y ago
As a user, I was very disappointed to see that the gateways must be enabled by the project owner, not by the users themselves. In the end none of the Slack groups I've participated in allowed me to connect via IRC/XMPP.
- herbst 9y agoPretty sure enabling these by default would lead to a moderation nightmare in many groups.
- ge0rg 9y agoI don't see how. You would still need to authenticate with that group, so it wouldn't automatically allow anonymous participants from the Internets.
- calcifer 9y agoSlack is an in-company chat product (their slogan is literally “where work happens” [1]) and it was never intended for public groups, which is why all invite automation tools for Slack are third-party. Slack doesn’t want you to use their product as a public chatroom and they try really hard to make that as unattractive as possible. Given that, “moderation nightmare” is not really a concern for the target audience since if your company needs moderation in its work chat, you have much bigger problems. [1] https://slack.com/ https://slack.com/