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Message |
| 02:06 |
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aditsu joined #sourcefu |
| 13:38 |
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codex |
pdurbin: I would suggest slack, but I know your feelings towards non-open things ;) |
| 13:38 |
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codex |
to me slack has been the ideal experience all around |
| 13:38 |
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codex |
I was in ~20ish irc channels (all on freenode), and all but 4 moved to slack |
| 13:41 |
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pdurbin |
Slack is great for some things. |
| 13:44 |
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pdurbin |
Hmm, you just gave me an idea. |
| 14:03 |
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codex |
I think it's actually really bad for open source communities, and partially because you have to add the slack communities (each with a channel) to the client |
| 14:03 |
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codex |
this means what used to be some # of irc channels is now some # of slack teams, each with some # of channels. Where in irc you can change channels with a command shortcut, you can't do that |
| 14:03 |
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codex |
but for private communities - it's excellent |
| 14:18 |
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dotplus |
yes, that fragmentation is one of the major (practical, rather than philosophical/ethical) disadvantages of the Rise of Slack. |
| 14:21 |
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dotplus |
pdurbin: I had a quick peek at the IRC gateway for gitter in order to see whether it really was an appealing or even acceptable alternative. And was immediately put off by the fact that I have to sign in with a git{hub,lab} or twitter account. |
| 14:21 |
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pdurbin |
dotplus: oh. Fewer passwords is a win for me. What do you want? |
| 14:21 |
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dotplus |
options |
| 14:22 |
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pdurbin |
What options are missing? |
| 14:22 |
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dotplus |
I think the best practice is "offer SSO with some common providers, but never neglect to provide the option to create an independent account" |
| 14:25 |
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dotplus |
separation is a fundamental internet hygiene behaviour: if git{hub,lab} and twitter aren't in any way involved in my access to gitter, that's one or three free vectors of compromise for my gitter account |
| 14:31 |
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pdurbin |
makes sense, I'm asking if there's an issue to track: https://gitter.im/gitterHQ/contributing/archives/2018/11/20 |
| 15:10 |
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pdurbin |
dotplus: it sounds like there isn't an issue to track the feature you want. I'm not motivated to create one. |
