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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by jlarocco on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:01PM (#11013667)
Whether you personally care about it or not, it's a little silly for an open source project to require closed source software to interact with the project.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by tyre on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:03PM (#11013697)
Why?

Has GitHub been bad for open source software?

Has Google Groups?

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by davexunit on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:08PM (#11014992)
Yes and yes.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by wstrange on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:24PM (#11013930)
Both of those platforms have fairly low barriers to exit.

Moving off of github is a simple clone. Google Groups is archived, and there are many other alternatives.

Unless you are paying for it, Slack message history vanishes.

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by Karunamon on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:30PM (#11014660)
And IRC history doesn't?

IRC doesn't even have the concept of message history. Any such thing is done by individual clients/bots.

Bringing up message history as a negative is just straight-up disingenuous with that in mind - the answer to both possibilities is the same: use a bot.

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by eterm on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:48PM (#11014210)
Whereas IRC history persists forever for free?

Oh, wait.

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by st3v3r on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:40PM (#11016202)
"Unless you are paying for it, Slack message history vanishes."

Same thing with IRC. With Slack, however, I can pay later, and still have access to the history. With IRC, once it's gone, it's gone.

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by rimantas on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:58PM (#11014300) 

  > Slack message history vanishes.
And?
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