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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015) by rsync on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:04AM (#21418928)
"There are several richer IRC clients; the author of this article suggests https://thelounge.chat/ in a later article about IRC."

I have no dog in this fight as I do not use slack nor do I use irc anymore ...

However, reading this comment thread makes me think that what you all really need is neither a slack alternative nor an irc alternative ... what you all really need is a very well written irc bot.

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015) by aidenn0 on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:40PM (#21425115)
The downside to that is that even with a well written bot, there is no source of truth for history, as the bot can become disconnected from the server, which implies we should move history logging and archival to the server, which is a bridge to far for many people; in particular Drew (the author of TFA) believes chat should be ephemeral rather than persistent and he is not alone in this camp.
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