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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by md224 on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:17PM (#11013842)
Please reply to posts directly for the sake of keeping the thread tidy. If you don't see a reply link for a post, click the timestamp (e.g. "17 minutes ago") to go to the permalink view for a given comment, where a reply box will be available.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by hardwaresofton on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:21PM (#11013885)
Thanks -- reply button didn't show up, wasn't sure why, didn't know about this trick to leave comments.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by md224 on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:23PM (#11013920)
No worries... I'm not sure exactly why the reply button is hidden when this "trick" allows you to reply regardless. HN mods might be able to shed more light on this.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by igravious on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:21PM (#11013896)
That's a neat trick, and not one that I knew about. I would also like to know why the reply button doesn't appear at times -- I presumed some kind of rate-limiting.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by ufo on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:19PM (#11013865)
Is there a reason why the replay button doesn't appear sometimes? I always wondered about that.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by jat850 on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:23PM (#11013913)
To you and the others curious about why the reply button doesn't show up, there is a buffer period after a reply appears before you can reply to it, to mitigate flame wars and such. It's usually a few minutes.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by hardwaresofton on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:24PM (#11013931)
Uhhh does that mean we just found a bug?
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by edanm on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:26PM (#11014610)
If you mean the fact that you can circumvent this, then I'm not sure. It's possibly intentionally left in so that more experienced users have a way around that limitation.
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