The short answer to "why Slack?" is that Slack is where I am. I use Slack daily for work and I do not use IRC at all. I also think Slack is a much nicer user experience.
I've configured our channel to support IRC connections (over SSL only), you can read about how to connect at these links: https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connecting-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP https://swcarpentry.slack.com/account/gateways Hope to see you on there! - Matt On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:49 AM Paul DeStefano < [email protected]> wrote: > I love IRC and agree with Terri about too many tools. > > Apparently, there is an IRC gateway for Slack that can be turned on > per-project. At least that's what I found after a quick search; I know > nothing about Slack so it could be a misunderstanding on my part. Is > there any interest in turning on this option for SWC? #SWC! > > On Saturday, 15 August 2015, C. Titus Brown wrote: > > Slack is much, much nicer than IRC from a usability perspective. I hate > > IRC and I was pretty happy with Slack. > > > > We ditched slack because of the closed aspect; we didn't think it > contributed > > to community building. But it is a truly nice system of software and > clients. > > > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:36:03AM -0400, Terri Yu wrote: > >> Are people proposing Slack because it's a more private version of IRC? > Or > >> is the reason that Slack is easier to use than IRC? I just don't want > to > >> see too many communication tools... > > -- > Paul DeStefano > 🐧 💻 ☆ 🏎 🍣 🍦 🎞 🔭 🌌_______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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