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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by giancarlostoro on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:19PM (#14090216)
I just use Franz:

http://meetfranz.com/

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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by djhworld on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:27PM (#14090320)
Two questions spring to mind that are not immediately obvious from the website - how do they get access to your messages in different accounts?

Are they using some API? Or do they ask you for your username/password for each service and "helpfully" login for you?

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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by interfixus on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:12PM (#14090832)
It appears to be just a wrapper around web interfaces. Electron or some such nonsense. Truckloads of megabytes - binary size as well as memory consumption.
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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by izacus on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:55PM (#14090638)
They pretty much wrap the website versions of the services.
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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by false-mirror on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:39PM (#14090472)
Or better yet, Rambox ;)

http://rambox.pro/

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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by giancarlostoro on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:32PM (#14093804)
Definitely checking that one out, thank you.
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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by Walkman on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:51PM (#14091193)
https://xkcd.com/927/
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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by mod on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @05:02PM (#14092415)
Franz isn't a new standard, by the look of the homepage.

Seems to be wrapping them all.

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