The Belgian community lives now mostly on Riot, we do have an IRC bridge and different channels to discuss dev or landuse related stuff.
The main drawback is the lack of threads (ever tried to follow 2 discussions taking place at the same time, let alone read was said during the day ?). The not so great search is another problem. But for a quick question (with a photo) it's great. just my .5 cent m On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I have had good experience with riot.im matrix.org it is open source, mobile > friendly and has an irc gateway. > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 3:27 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: >> >> >> >> Am 10.06.2018 um 05:21 schrieb Bryan Housel: >> >> I'm also interested in how others feel about Slack. Is it good for the >> >> community or should we look elsewhere? >> > Glad you asked! I think Slack has changed the way I work for the >> > better. >> > >> > Here are some advantages.. >> > * lower barrier to entry for less technical folks >> > * great mobile experience >> > * good for sharing files / screenshots >> > * works well for both sync and async chat >> > * emoji reactions, can be used to both cut down on noise comments but >> > also mark things as read (like our welcome users feed) >> > * integration with basically everything (GitHub, Stripe, RSS anything >> > you want really) >> > * easy to start focused public or private channels and pull a few people >> > in to a discussion >> > * ability to mute and set availability times >> > * user profiles >> > * decent search >> >> You can have all of that with a number of alternatives, matrix for >> completely open and free, mattermost and so on for less ... >> .. and these alternatives actually connect with other stuff (say irc). >> >> > * everyone is on it >> That's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy after you've essentially >> force migrated everybody there and then cut the ties with any other >> competing media (in OSM) so that you can have your nice walled garden. >> >> SImon >> >> > >> > I really can’t imagine going back to something else. I’d happily pay >> > for it if they asked me to. >> > >> > Anyway, I felt it important to speak up because I’ve noticed a very >> > common situation when asking for people’s opinion about something, the >> > people who are happy will stay silent, and the few who have a problem will >> > be the ones who respond. >> > >> > There are currently over 800 people on the OSM-US Slack, and over 3000 >> > on the GIS Spatial Community Slack. I have no idea how many people are >> > subscribed to the talk-us mailing list. >> > >> > I don’t think we should get rid of mailing lists. We should still copy >> > things to the talk-us mailing that affect the entire US community. >> > >> > Just my thoughts >> > Thanks, Bryan >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Talk-us mailing list >> > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
