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>It's quite sad Slack and Discord are often the first choice for open communities. Slack is particularly bad as you need to make a new account for each instanc
by fnord123 5y ago
>It's quite sad Slack and Discord are often the first choice for open communities.
Slack is particularly bad as you need to make a new account for each instance (i.e. project). And you need to log in to each instance separately on each device where you have Slack.
- tchock23 5y agoThis is why I struggle to understand how Slack has been adopted so broadly for building online communities. The need to have separate accounts per instance is such a hassle. I spent twenty minutes yesterday trying to find which account I used to sign in to a dev-related Slack on a new laptop that had yet to login.
- bradknowles 5y agoConversely, I’m on several slacks, and I’ve only ever used the same account on all of them. One slack app and one slack account works for all of them. I do hate the way that Discord forces me to use the same account and same profile on all the discord servers I connect to through the client. I could connect to different ones with different accounts on different web browsers, but that’s a royal pain. I guess I care more about the different communities I connect to through Discord, and I want to have more unique profiles for each of them, whereas just the one profile works for all the slacks that I am connected to.
- fnord123 5y ago> Conversely, I’m on several slacks, and I’ve only ever used the same account on all of them. One slack app and one slack account works for all of them. How? Each time I join a slack, e.g. haproxy, i need to make a new slack account tied to my email address for that slack instance. How do you make a single slack account to be used everywhere?