Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)
by oefrha on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:40PM
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> Sharing files is trivial with Gist
Apparently not all files that need to be shared are text files. Developers have a million ways to share text files, thank you.
(I know how to use gists to share images and other files. It's not pretty.)
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)
by thrower123 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:39PM
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I have a warm place in my heart for Pidgin. For a long, long time I had to deal with IM clients that wouldn't let you sign in more than one account per instance, and some of them used mutexes to prevent running multiple instances.
It looked like hot dog vomit, but it worked wonderfully.
If by that you mean that it doesn't require a machine with 32GB of RAM to run smoothly, then I'm all for such 90s chat tools!
Sharing files is trivial with Gist; and you get a fully proper history, ability to fork, plus works much faster than the clumsiness and memory waste that comes with Slack.