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I've never used IRC (despite being in dev long enough, just never have), hence feeling this was a new thing. I agree that pushing out to docs is ideal but in r

I've never used IRC (despite being in dev long enough, just never have), hence feeling this was a new thing. I agree that pushing out to docs is ideal but in reality I doubt this happens very often. I just searched for an error in the TypeORM slack and slack said results were limited due to the number of messages in the community - not helpful, I suppose some kind of auto push out to an indexable location after X time would be a good solution. I guess I just find it odd that we are happy for the discussion of open source code to move behind company walls. I realise that github is a company but at least it is indexable and archivable in some way, Discord and Slack are significantly much closed

libertycabbage 6y ago
Yeah, the Slack and message limit thing is why Discord > Slack as far as real-time chat goes for projects. Free workspaces in Slack have a 10k messages history limit so once you get big enough, you start "losing" older messages (although they still exist, and if you end up paying, you get access to them again). There are some other options out there to address the "company walls" bit. Products like [Matrix](https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/) come to mind; it does require a bit more setup, but you keep control over data. It makes discovery a bit harder though (i.e. you can assume that a significant % of folks already have a Discord account for some reason, and people aren't averse to creating accounts on Slack, but they might back off from engaging with solutions like Matrix because it feels like a new thing they would need accounts for).