Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)
by philwelch on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:30AM
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That makes IRC sound like a good tool for open source projects though. None of the negatives seem to apply to this scenario.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)
by IshKebab on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:55AM
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The lack of threading and image support is a pretty big issue to open source projects though. The lack of threading has always been annoying in IRC, and posting screenshots is very convenient and useful in Slack.
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)
by heavenlyblue on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:06AM
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For all of the points made towards Slack here, let’s remind everyone here that none of the open source projects actually use Slack.
The only useful software to get any sorts of real-time support from the community is Matrix. Nobody uses Slack in open-source simply because you can’t allow unregistered users to ask questions on public channels.