Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by IshKebab on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:13AM (#18725516)

I wonder if part of the reason we don't have any great open source Slack competitors (yes I know about Mattermost, Zulip, etc.) is that so many open source developers (or at least commenters here) seem to be under the illusion that IRC is a reasonable alternative to Slack.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by mgbmtl on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:06AM (#18726056)

What's wrong with Mattermost? We use it for our FOSS community (and I use another instance for our company), works well.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by clarry on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:00PM (#18728563)

Just terrible UX in general, and a very bloated & power hungry client. Search is borderline useless, and it's difficult for me to find anything that was talked about a couple weeks ago (meanwhile I can easily grep IRC logs for things that were said years ago). People at work turned off mobile notifications because they sometimes work, but usually not when you want them to work. I wish we'd just switch to IRC.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by SamWhited on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:46PM (#18730299)

What protocol does Mattermost use? I was under the impression that it was XMPP, but I can't find anything that says that now that I'm glancing at it. Did they invent their own as well?

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by simonsaidit on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:29PM (#18728224)

Our company still have a lot of guys on irc so a bridge was put in place to mattermost :)

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