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Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications | Dave Cheney

Full disclosure: my employer makes a Slack alternative. All my concerns about the use of Slack type chat services apply equally to its competitors, including my employer’s.

Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

This blog post was published on November 1, 2015. It might be out of date, have broken images or links, or simply contain bad ideas and opinions that didn't stand the test of time. Please read generously!

Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

These projects hope to provide not just a free alternative to the popular chat app but beat Slack at its own game by providing features it doesn't have.

From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy

“HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.”

Slack Blog

Welcome to the official Slack blog. Explore our latest product news, research on the future of work, and tips for using Slack to be more productive.

Extend Slack with Node.js

It is 2016 and Slack is the new e-mail. For many distributed teams or companies like Auth0, Slack has become the default communication…

Our Experience With Slack

Back in April, all was well with our community of busy adults learning to code. We were communicating using Gitter.im, a GitHub based chatroom system. And yet every day, someone would ask me “Why aren’t your campers using Slack?” I’d considered Slack...

How Slack and Discord became tools for worker revolt

Lots of tech worker movements got their start on Slack and Discord, even if the creators of those apps would rather not talk about it.

slackfs/PLAN.md at main · jeremy46231/slackfs

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Slack Bridge Improvements!

Over the past two weeks or so we’ve been improving Riot’s Slack bridge enormously: making it as seamless as possible to link the members…

What happened when this tech company stopped using Slack on Fridays - Fast Company

The social media platform wanted to see if they can be more focused and productive when there aren't endless Slack notifications.

Linen | Front page for your Slack and Discord Communities

Linen syncs your Slack and Discord threads to an SEO friendly website that allows your community to discover you through search engines and reduces the number of repeat questions.

Slack is not for me

I began 2018 choosing to log out of Slack. More than a month later, I have yet to log back in.

Slack → Colibri Bridge

One-way sync from the FoC Slack workspace into the Colibri atproto network. Every bridged message, reaction, and attachment is a public record on the bot's bsky.social PDS; every raw Slack event is archived losslessly under a com.feelingofcomputing.bridge.* lexicon on the same repo. The bot authors messages into channels owned by a separate community-owner DID — the inverse pattern described under Identity.

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