Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back:
Why I Avoid Slack
I avoid interacting on Slack, especially for technical conversations around open source software. Instead, I encourage colleagues to have technical and design conversations on GitHub, or some other system that is public, permanent, searchable, and cross-referenceable. In the spirit of Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) I’m writing up these thoughts as a blogpost.
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...
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…
Slack’s Threading Failure #threadfail
Slack, as I’m sure everyone now knows, introduced their new threading feature after many years of planning and customer requests. From the…
Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, But Google Didn’t Know What It Had
Everyone has been talking about Slack lately. The chat app, which is primarily aimed at offices and productivity, is simple, well designed, fun to use,...
You should use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community – Dan Moore!
Hot take after a year or so of trying to build a developer community. If you can pick only one, use forum software rather than synchronous chat software for community building around a developer platform.
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.
Group chats rule the world
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups. Being part of the right group chat can feel like having a peek at the kitchen of a restaurant but instead of food, messy ideas and gossip fly about in real time, get mixed, remixed, discarded, polished before they show up in a prepared fashion in public.
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.
Slack, I’m Breaking Up with You
Hey there, Slack. This won’t be easy, but it’s for the best.
We're on Slack! Join us! - Creative Commons
Today we’re excited to announce that we have migrated our real time communications from IRC to Slack.
The Ridiculous Engineering Of Chat
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
Why Your Community Needs a Home, Not Just a Group Chat
We all crave connection. And when we want to bring people together, the easiest option is to spin up a group chat. But if you’ve ever tried turning a Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp group into a real community, you’ve seen the trade-off
