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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015) by cnst on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:28PM (#21416051)
> One of the biggest problems with IRC is that there is no immediately obvious way to jump into a channel and browse or search the history.

There's literally web-clients available where all you gotta do is click a link and write a name that hasn't been taken by anyone yet, and you're in. No email address, no password.

History is even more straightforward — anonymous access to all IRC history is frequently provided by most projects. How do you get history for Slack without having an account?

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015) by oefrha on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:38PM (#21416090)
> History is even more straightforward — anonymous access to all IRC history is frequently provided by most projects.

Most projects? Really? I'd say at most 20% of IRC channels for open source projects I've been on have published history.

Shopping around for a log bot and figuring out a publishing channel is not straightforward. In fact nothing is more straightforward than builtin. While I'm not a big fan of using Slack for open source collaboration, saying IRC history is straightforward and provided by most projects is indeed delusional.

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