I would, at least initially, advise against Slack.

I constantly hear people decry its growing use in open source communities
for a mix of two reasons. The first seems to come from strong IRC
proponents, with the general complaint of "it's not open," and getting into
the whole "your data is not your data" idea, especially with recent changes
to Slack with regards to privacy. The second seems to come from the
inability to really get away from Slack. Their notification system is
pretty rudimentary, in that there's not much fine tuning to be done and
most people I've talked with are either overloaded with things to care
about or mute everything and only manually check channels. There's an
additional problem in that you can never fully be away from Slack. Their
"Do Not Disturb" settings can't stretch for more than 24 hours (something
they do not appear eager to change as they're asked about this quite
often), so you need to go out of your way to do something about the weekend
to get some time away from work.


However, I'm not really familiar with the initial problem of people joining
IRC. Rather, one I'm familiar with regards to IRC is the problem of
replicating things like Slack—or at least the ability to receive messages
while offline—such as using/buying/hosting an IRC bouncer. Can you speak
more about what brought you to propose a change here? I wonder if this is
something we can just solve while continuing to use IRC?

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 6:27 AM, INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Nowadays, joining to IRC is a hurdle for new contributors.
> There are some alternative, modern web applications:
>
> * Slack -- Most used for tech communities.
> * Discord -- Similar to slack. It is focusing game, but support OSS too.
> [1]
> * Gitter -- Most integrated with Github.  typing, mypy, pip use it already.
>
> [1] https://discordapp.com/open-source
>
>
> I know adding communication channel is not good always.
> (We couldn't keep https://discuss.python.org/)
> But I think IRC is really high hurdle for young people.
>
> How about trying one of them? (maybe, gitter?)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> INADA Naoki  <songofaca...@gmail.com>
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