Slack seems like it is becoming more and more popular.  Have we considered setting up a Slack chat group?

On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 17:49:51 UTC, Andrew Benton wrote:
> Slack seems like it is becoming more and more popular.  Have we considered setting up a Slack chat group?

Slack is designed for small teams, and many programming communities that tried to jump on the bandwagon are realizing this and switching back: http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html

There's an IRC channel, it's good. Use that instead.

On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 17:49:51 UTC, Andrew Benton wrote:
> Slack seems like it is becoming more and more popular.  Have we considered setting up a Slack chat group?

What does it have to offer?

I know two groups who use it... and I kinda hate it. One of the users is a part-time client of mine, and I have the constant problem of missing messages, or seeing it one day, but since it is part-time, I don't get back to that job for several days... and go back and it says "you have more messages but are hidden" so I can't review what was said!

I just find it really, really difficult to use and don't understand its popularity at all.

On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 18:16:51 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 17:49:51 UTC, Andrew Benton wrote:
>> Slack seems like it is becoming more and more popular.  Have we considered setting up a Slack chat group?
>
> Slack is designed for small teams, and many programming communities that tried to jump on the bandwagon are realizing this and switching back: http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html
>
> There's an IRC channel, it's good. Use that instead.

I'm on the IRC channel, but I use Slack at work, and I've found that it's nice to have.

Just imagine a Slack channel with 100+ people where every second someone posts a code snippet, a picture, etc. :) Brrrrrr, I had that picture in my hear for few seconds and it looked scary.

No, Slack is not for large communities (IRC), but for small, private teams.