Can I petition for you moving away from Slack with is hostile to open communities due to its business model (e.g. hiding messages after 3 months unless you pay $8.75/user/month), towards Discord which is welcoming to communities due to their business model. I’m spearheading an initiative[1] to move Slacks to there after this recent decision.
Yeah I’m aware that there are arguments against Slack on these kinds of bases. From my perspective, Discord has 2 main annoyances: (1) worse formatting options in messages (e.g. no links in text) and more importantly (2) no reply threads, which can make messages really cluttered. I’ve mentioned in the slack already that I’d be willing to cover costs if it comes to that
I’d be open to changing my mind on these points though, if I found that Discord had those features or close alternatives
Hey, quick note to mention that Discord now does have its version of threads (it’s been a few months or something). Not everyone is using them everywhere, they’re not quite as ubiquitous as slacks’, but I think they’re good enough that this should not be a blocking point anymore. So it’s probably a good time to at least try the switch, if not for this project then for the next you try :)
Yep thanks for mentioning this, it did come up in the discussion on the Slack group and definitely updated me towards Discord. The vote for whether we should use Slack or Discord did end up going in favour of Slack by a margin of 14 votes to 6, so we’ll be sticking with Slack for now, but we might revisit the issue in the future if there’s good reason to (e.g. the 90 day history thing proves a significant inconvenience).
Can I petition for you moving away from Slack with is hostile to open communities due to its business model (e.g. hiding messages after 3 months unless you pay $8.75/user/month), towards Discord which is welcoming to communities due to their business model. I’m spearheading an initiative[1] to move Slacks to there after this recent decision.
PSA: Slack is hostile to open communities. We’re moving to Discord, don’t make more (open) Slacks.
I’ll copy in my response from EA Groups Slack:
Yeah I’m aware that there are arguments against Slack on these kinds of bases. From my perspective, Discord has 2 main annoyances: (1) worse formatting options in messages (e.g. no links in text) and more importantly (2) no reply threads, which can make messages really cluttered. I’ve mentioned in the slack already that I’d be willing to cover costs if it comes to that
I’d be open to changing my mind on these points though, if I found that Discord had those features or close alternatives
Hey, quick note to mention that Discord now does have its version of threads (it’s been a few months or something). Not everyone is using them everywhere, they’re not quite as ubiquitous as slacks’, but I think they’re good enough that this should not be a blocking point anymore.
So it’s probably a good time to at least try the switch, if not for this project then for the next you try :)
Yep thanks for mentioning this, it did come up in the discussion on the Slack group and definitely updated me towards Discord. The vote for whether we should use Slack or Discord did end up going in favour of Slack by a margin of 14 votes to 6, so we’ll be sticking with Slack for now, but we might revisit the issue in the future if there’s good reason to (e.g. the 90 day history thing proves a significant inconvenience).