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We're under no legal requirement but I simply don't trust Slack employees to be good stewards of our data. On a UI/UX basis, Slack and Discord are far superior
by meritt 8y ago
We're under no legal requirement but I simply don't trust Slack employees to be good stewards of our data. On a UI/UX basis, Slack and Discord are far superior to Mattermost, so hopefully they can use this funding to close that gap.
- eggie5 8y agoProbably a good call. Slack trains recommender systems w/ all user data mixed together. Although w/ attempts to preserve privacy... See their paper from recsys '18 Vancouver.
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- ddorian43 8y agoRecommeneder for what ?
- drdaeman 8y agoThe only recommendations I remember on Slack are for channel participation - accidental suggestions to leave some I don't really read any much, and to join some I may be interested in. YMMV, but for me that's a very low value feature.
- ddorian43 8y agoThe same for me. That's why I was asking.
- johnymontana 8y agoThe referenced paper: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3241726 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3241726
- docker_up 8y agoIsn't Slack based on Mattermost?
- meritt 8y agoNo, not in the slightest. https://www.mattermost.org/why-we-made-mattermost-an-open-source-slack-alternative/ https://www.mattermost.org/why-we-made-mattermost-an-open-so...