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digitalmars.D - Slack discussion group?

reply Andrew Benton <Andrew.Benton675 gmail.com> writes:
Slack seems like it is becoming more and more popular.  Have we 
considered setting up a Slack chat group?
Oct 27 2015
next sibling parent reply Jack Stouffer <jack jackstouffer.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 17:49:51 UTC, Andrew Benton wrote:

 Slack seems like it is becoming more and more popular.  Have we 
 considered setting up a Slack chat group?


Slack is designed for small teams, and many programming 
communities that tried to jump on the bandwagon are realizing 
this and switching back: 
http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html

There's an IRC channel, it's good. Use that instead.
Oct 27 2015
parent Andrew Benton <Andrew.Benton675 gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 18:16:51 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 17:49:51 UTC, Andrew Benton 
 wrote:

 Slack seems like it is becoming more and more popular.  Have 
 we considered setting up a Slack chat group?


 Slack is designed for small teams, and many programming 
 communities that tried to jump on the bandwagon are realizing 
 this and switching back: 
 http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html

 There's an IRC channel, it's good. Use that instead.


I'm on the IRC channel, but I use Slack at work, and I've found 
that it's nice to have.
Oct 28 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 17:49:51 UTC, Andrew Benton wrote:

 Slack seems like it is becoming more and more popular.  Have we 
 considered setting up a Slack chat group?


What does it have to offer?

I know two groups who use it... and I kinda hate it. One of the 
users is a part-time client of mine, and I have the constant 
problem of missing messages, or seeing it one day, but since it 
is part-time, I don't get back to that job for several days... 
and go back and it says "you have more messages but are hidden" 
so I can't review what was said!

I just find it really, really difficult to use and don't 
understand its popularity at all.
Oct 27 2015
prev sibling parent Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
Just imagine a Slack channel with 100+ people where every second 
someone posts a code snippet, a picture, etc. :) Brrrrrr, I had 
that picture in my hear for few seconds and it looked scary.

No, Slack is not for large communities (IRC), but for small, 
private teams.
Oct 28 2015