[Cialug] Slack group?

[Todd Walton]

This group tried Google Wave back in the day.

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Todd

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015, 12:39 PM Jim Cole <jrcole at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would disagree. I use IRC too. Where I see slack is more of a
> combination of this list and IRC. You have permanent, searchable
> groups(channels). I hadnt visited the startup one for a couple of
> months and I was able to sign in and go back over the discussions for
> those months. IRC is real-time but as far as I know not searchable
> with no history on it unless you are logged in or have some bot
> recording everything said on a channel.
>
> Slack has the many 'integrations', posting news bits to channels via
> bots, real-time video or screen sharing via hangouts, etc.
> http://slackstack.io/ for a list of add-ons.
>
> We have been bouncing between hipchat and slack for work and decided
> that slack fit the bill better. It's feature-set is ever expanding.
>
> The free slack has a message search history of I believe 10K and yes,
> if you want to do some of the things like allow people to connect as
> guests or do some of the integrations, you need to upgrade but we
> havent found the need to do that with my team using it so far.
>
> With this list, the messages are stored in my email, so I must go back
> and search email, with IRC I dont have any way to go back over those
> unless I was on the channel at the time and logged them somewhere.
>
> It just seems dated to me. I have been using IRC for 20+ years,
> mailing lists for longer..seems like its time to combine the two. I
> can understand the resistance..if it works for you then why change but
> I found that it brings my team closer together so I thought I'd
> propose it for this group.
>
> -Jim
>
>
> > fair warning:  i'm biased
> >
> > slack is just prettied up irc with a pay-for-full feature set and ads in
> > the apps
> >
> > there's already an active #cialug channel on freenode.net
> >
> > try it on the web at:  https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cialug
> >
> > there are already many free irc apps, plugins, and addons
> >
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