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Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by LinuxBender on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:07PM (#37960905)
Corporate Slack instances are probably not a great place to discuss such things. One could in a pinch fire up one of the ssh chat daemons [1] on an EC2 assuming that most of the employees are familiar with using SSH. There is a demo documented in that git repo. People can ssh under a pseudonym rather than using a real name. The daemon uses private keys to track identity so make a new SSH key specific to that server. Not my repo but the maintainer is here on HN.

    # append to ~/.ssh/config
    # ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 2048 -N "" -C "chat" -f ~/.ssh/ssh-chat
    Host chat
        Hostname some-ec2-ip
        Port 22
        User some-username
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/ssh-chat
        # Go's ssh lib is old
        HostkeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
        PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-rsa
Another quick, lightweight and simple option is uMurmur but it would require people installing Mumble on their laptop or Mumla on their phone so that's extra friction.

[1] - https://github.com/quackduck/devzat

Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by toomuchtodo on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:07PM (#37962040)
https://slack.com/pricing/free for expediency, https://mattermost.com/ as you scale. Make it easy to onboard folks in the org from their personal devices, no corp devices.
Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by shortrounddev2 on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:35PM (#37962245)
I have no clue why anybody would use work slack for anything more than friendly conversation. The idea of using company-monitored communications to discuss dissatisfaction with your jobs is insane to me
Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by pavel_lishin on Friday October 20, 2023 @11:19PM (#37963809)
> One could in a pinch fire up one of the ssh chat daemons [1] on an EC2 assuming that most of the employees are familiar with using SSH.

If you want any non-engineers in on your conversation, you absolutely should not assume that.

Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by scarface_74 on Friday October 20, 2023 @11:56PM (#37963951)
Yep, they could just fire up an EC2 instance after creating an AWS account on Isengard and go ham. /s
Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by chpatrick on Saturday October 21, 2023 @10:32AM (#37967085)
Or you know, Discord.
Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by quackduck on Saturday October 21, 2023 @07:25PM (#37971422)
Oh btw the go SSH lib being old thing has been fixed for a while now.