On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > +0.5 to Slack. It's clearly better than IRC on a number of fronts, but if > it replaces publicly browseable/searchable interfaces, information can be > lost for the casual folks who are the lifeblood of a community. (Meeting > announces there won't be seen by the public, for example.) This usually > isn't a problem for IRC since it is so clearly unfit for that purpose. >
Yeah, wasn't aware of Slack, literally, at all until this thread, and didn't even bother to check it out until I saw it mentioned on /r/furry around the same moment a coworker found it independently and sent me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6sSa5NpqUI I think it'd be an improvement over Hipchat for office environments (seriously don't like Hipchat, but it's not my call) but I can't really see myself using slack for OSM...
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