Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by brongondwana on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @10:46PM (#11302273)

If you never read any comments that tell you what's so hard, then I guess you don't see them.

To avoid repeating myself: http://lists.lca2016.linux.org.au/pipermail/chat/2016-Januar...

As soon as you say "run a bouncer" you limit your audience severely. Without a bouncer, you're a transient in the world of IRC. Doubly so if you have the temerity to want to interact from a mobile device that pops on and off networks all the time.

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by voltagex_ on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:40AM (#11302619)

I was in the LCA2016 IRC channel and at LCA2016 in person. I really wish we could have CCC [1] levels of "audience participation" because it allows people to interact with the conference who may not normally be able to attend. The live streaming was really well done but I think there needs to be One True Chat Channel for LCA2017. Maybe that means using Slack or similar and swallowing a bit of FOSS pride for a while.

[1]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Congress_Everywhere and yes, they use IRC. LCA's audience is a bit different

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