If we're talking about an open-source project dev community, I honestly think there are better tools out there these days. There are two main problems I have w

If we're talking about an open-source project dev community, I honestly think there are better tools out there these days. There are two main problems I have with Slack communities: the message limit, and having to create yet another account. Being able to search for a question that may have already been asked is great, and the need for more accounts is a bit of a turnoff too. Gitter was specifically built with open-source projects in mind, which is great. However, once a project becomes large enough, having a single channel is probably not conducive to productivity. Lately I've started seeing open-source communities use Discord, which seems rather interesting. Of course, there are also the projects out there that use Matrix and have IRC and Gitter bridges. Having said all this, I'm also a part of some non-project-based Slack dev communities. I can definitely see the appeal to these; a lot of people already use Slack for work, after all.