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re: community I hope we move on from Slack as a community hub. It's not about searchability -- it's totally unsuitable for public/open communities. If you've
by jraines 8y ago
re: community
I hope we move on from Slack as a community hub. It's not about searchability -- it's totally unsuitable for public/open communities. If you've been in there recently you probably know what I mean -- it's vulnerable to griefing in a way that, to my understanding, Slack is not interested in fixing.
- puredanger 8y agoI find the Clojure Slack to be a great and helpful community. There are certainly plenty of other Clojure chat systems on Zulip, ClojureVerse, etc.
- jraines 8y ago[edit: original parent said "no idea what you mean" - just noting b/c my response only makes sense to that, not b/c offended by it or anything] spoofing identities (or, I guess, making sockpuppet ones) to @-everyone and post porn gifs & racial slurs from slackbot in #clojure -- Yes, the Clojure community is awesome! I only mean that Slack has problems that allow malicious people to spoil the fun. I don't know if it's been addressed. I logged out the last time it happened.
- jakebasile 8y agoI very much agree with you here. Slack is bad software in general but particularly bad for open source communities. Searchability is essentially gone, it requires a proprietary and extremely heavy piece of software to access, and it's very hidden from public view. I know there's been a couple efforts to find a place to relocate to, but it's never really gone anywhere.