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An open source blockchain project I’m involved with just moved from Slack to Discord. Slack is designed for trusted teams and does not handle malicious members
by danielvf 9y ago
An open source blockchain project I’m involved with just moved from Slack to Discord.
Slack is designed for trusted teams and does not handle malicious members. There are several won’t-fix issues that drove us out:
1. Anyone can set reminders for the slackbot to message to anyone in the channel. These reminders look official and don’t say who sent them. Great for phishing. You can’t disable this.
2. By default, anyone can download a list of all users, including email addresses and real names. Awesome again for phishing.
3. It’s now super hard to tell imitation accounts from the real thing on Slack. Multiple people can have the same usernames in the channel.
Discord, being forged in the fires of massive gamer communities approaches everything with the expectation that some of your users will be evil, and gives you good tools to deal with it.