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For companies, yeah, this makes sense. It was nice when this wasn't true, but never really expected nor required. Unfortunately, Slack also gets used for a lot
by Arubis 9y ago
For companies, yeah, this makes sense. It was nice when this wasn't true, but never really expected nor required.
Unfortunately, Slack also gets used for a lot of OSS communities. Arguably this was already a poor fit, but now it's even more obviously a mismatched relationship; it's unclear whether one could just start paying for a Slack account and immediately pull all DM history for something that didn't come with the expectation of corporate ownership.
#freenodeforlyfe, I suppose.
- zifnab06 9y agoRocket Chat is something I've been looking into. It's...well pretty amazing so far. Open source, self hosted, bridges to slack fairly reasonably, and gives IRC style permissions. Slightly nicer for the "I'm not always logged in"/"We need a log bot" issues IRC has had.
- ianmiers 9y agoIf it's self hosted, then DMs cannot be private from the company/organization since they literally have root on the box.
- er0k 9y ago> it's unclear whether one could just start paying for a Slack account and immediately pull all DM history for something that didn't come with the expectation of corporate ownership I've tried. In my experience, Slack will not approve your compliance export application without articles of incorporation.
- Avery3R 9y agosome projects are moving over to discord