This link was posted on another mailing list recently in criticism of Slack: https://bitquabit.com/post/i-hate-slack-and-you-should-too/
On 18 July 2017 at 09:12, Chandra <chandra.tungathur...@rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Having used both paid and free service (of slack), I’d say the paid > service makes a lot of sense for corporates. > a public forum like this I believe a free tier would suffice — unless we > are looking for an option of having >10k messages for searching + >5gb of > storage [1]. This is just my opinion, but people think otherwise and I > believe some-biased opinions on Flock too[2]. > > thanks, > > Chandra > [1] https://dev-s.slack.com/pricing > [2] https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-Gitter-vs-Slack > > On 18 Jul 2017, 7:29 PM +0530, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com>, wrote: > > what's the diff between gitter and hipchat? > > > > Google search seems to maybe be saying hipchat is better for many. > > > > We have already Hipchat available, I think. (We've added it to our > project, > > Apache UIMA). > > > > -Marshall Schor > > > > > > On 7/17/2017 10:20 PM, Matt Sicker wrote: > > > Gitter is public. And Slack is a paid service (free version has a lot > of > > > limits), so it's not very feasible for public chats without someone > funding > > > it. Gitter, however, is free for all GitHub projects (and Gitlab too I > > > think?) and is even open source now that Gitlab owns them. > > > > > > On 17 July 2017 at 21:13, Tungathurthi, Chandra Kiran Bharadwaj < > > > chandra.tungathur...@rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > > > > > > > Hey actually, a slack channel would fit right in. Any specific > reason to > > > > choose gitter over slack ? @matt > > > > > > > > thanks & regards, > > > > Chandra > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Gary Gregory > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 18 July, 07:08 > > > > Subject: Re: Desire for a Gitter channel? > > > > To: Log4J Users List > > > > > > > > So, like a private Slack? Bah, why not, as long as we make sure to > > > > document any and all decisions on the ML, it could be OK. Gary On > Mon, Jul > > > > 17, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Matt Sicker wrote: > > https://gitter.im/apache/home > > > > > > We can request a log4j Gitter channel for realtime chat. This > could be > > > > > handy for quick questions and other things that waiting on Stack > Overflow > > > > > or mailing list posts isn't as appropriate for. > > This would be > very > > > > different from the ASF Slack as it is open to everyone. > > Also, I > find > > > > chat rooms a bit easier to reply to while at work than > browsing > Stack > > > > Overflow. ;) > > -- > Matt Sicker > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
