Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

Re:Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community? by KajMagnus on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:33AM (#16874960)

And (IMO) it's sooo annoying that everything is hidden behind a login screen. I usually don't signup, just to see what might be behind.

Here're open source Slack alternatives for public communities, no login screens: https://spectrum.chat and https://www.talkyard.io (I'm developing it).

(Rocket Chat & Mattermost & Zulip are other alternatives, all require login to see what's there? )

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Re:Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community? by blocked_again on Thursday April 19, 2018 @09:36AM (#16875761)

Many organization and companies don't want outsiders to see what is happening due to privacy and security issues. Anyway, there is a PR opened for Zulip which allows people to see the content of public streams without logging in. It's up to the administrators to decide which streams would be public to users which are not logged in.

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/8135

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Re:Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community? by KajMagnus on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:39AM (#16900771)

Interesting to know, thanks for mentioning :- ) B.t.w. I like Zulip's threads.

A thought: What if Zulip, during installation, let the admin choose if things should be public or hidden-behind-login, by default? E.g. useful for open source projects

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Re:Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community? by tabbott on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:46AM (#16900801)

We're actually working on something like this in Zulip; it's advertised as "coming soon" at http://zulipchat.com/for/open-source

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