On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 15:14 +0000, Greg Titus wrote: > Russel, can you say more about why? Just a few sentences regarding > the things you wanted that Slack didn’t have or do, and what your use > model is for Gitter? > > thanks listeningly, > greg
Gitter is effectively an IRC replacement which allows for a list of channels you are interested in and allows you to switch quickly and easily between them. I use it for various channels, e.g. gtk-rs, SDKMAN!, Ceylon programming language discussions. It is exactly IRC with a nice browser-based interfaces. Slack was (last time I used it) about creating walled communities with no notion of being a member of many – except that you could have lots of tabs and lots of logins. It's more about closed forum than open discussion. The focus was on communications between members of a project and handling management of the evolution of the project. I am sure it serves a good purpose for distributed teams, just not for the dipping in and out to ask and answer questions that IRC (and Gitter) are good for. I understand Discourse allows for a forum interface to what can be used as email lists. The relationship between forums, email lists, IRC style systems seems trivial in many ways, but it is subtly important in so many ways. It is all about the workflows of the users. The whole "forum vs. email list" is a big example of this. Some people like to go to a community and reside in it, some people like the messages to come to their collator (email client usually) so as to provide an event stream which they can then act on. I am in the email/RSS collator UI camp. I rarely remember to go to the GtkD forum, it has no email sub-system and no RSS/Atom feed. The Gradle forum allows for email events so that you can go to the forum for an interesting discussion. The Rust forum has an RSS feed which I look at via Newblur. Others have a different workflow model, that works for them but not for me. Going to a closed forum is not interesting as I am associated with so many, I need the event stream. Sadly Gitter doesn't provide an event stream or RSS feed, but I can have one tab open and it monitors all the channels. -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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