2015-10-06 11:31 GMT-03:00 Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com>:
Slack works very well for large groups. I'm already using it with a group that is larger than this one.
+1
-1 I do not thing a tool will change community culture (because is not about tools, is about community culture here, and we are very âmail orientedâ) but not opposed to try it (if they have a desktop app for real: I will never use a web app⦠if you just have a web client to offer me, no matter how good it is, I will still believe is a crap. I have an unbeatable reason: I have tons of browsers tabs open all the time, in different windows. If I have to search an app inside that stack, I will just not doit. Now, I have a good #irc client, and each time I want I do cmd+tab and go to see what is happening⦠I want the same experience)
I don't think it's going to change community culture, mailing and IM are two separate things. That's why IRC didn't change anything related mailing, in fact mailing is growing (or at least that's how I perceive it). Try it out, I've been using it since the beginning of this year, and its comfortable. I recommended it to a few techie friends, which were as skeptic about it as you, and they ended up liking it, so who knows... maybe we can turn you to the other side of the force :P
I think it would be better than the IRC alternative, no matter how good your IRC client is.
why? because is new? #irc is around since a lot and it has work fine for many groups of different sizes.
Ey! I know IRC and used it since BitchX and then mIRC! But it's not because it's new, it's because is prettier, in provides nice integrations with other services (GitHub, CI, you name it), file previews.
Please ask for more invitations!
anyway, Iâm ok with testing it⦠but even the fact that you need invitations are more or less annoying for me :S
Esteban
ps: so, send me an invitation⦠:)
heh⦠I logged to slack after⦠2yrs⦠and yes, I have the #pharo slack. So, let me invite you to see if I can do it⦠then we can test it.
Ha! I sent you an invitation.