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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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

slackfs/PLAN.md at main · jeremy46231/slackfs

Contribute to jeremy46231/slackfs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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…

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 It might be out of date, have broken images or links, or simply contain bad ideas and opinions that didn't stand the test of time.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!

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.

AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow

Powering Discord content discovery by making web pages from threads for some of the largest servers, including Valorant, Cloudflare, C#, and Nuxt.

Discord Alternatives, Ranked

Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

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.

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