I forgot to mention that the Gitter interface uses your Github user as login and allows you to reference PR and ping Github users. It is similar to Slack, but IMHO it is better designed for code and of course much better integration with Github.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Guido Medina <oxyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is also Gitter for chat like interfaces iterations, provided by > GitHub, examples: > > https://gitter.im/akka/dev > https://gitter.im/akka/akka > > Can ping Github users, and I believe is free for OpenSource projects. > > Just giving you ideas. > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Guido Medina <oxyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I didn't know about that, I only find very unpractical the e-mail >> practices, I myself have no social media accounts anywhere. >> But I found Google groups to be extremely easy to use and very practical, >> specially in the matter of not receiving e-mails. >> >> That's why I suggested it, but I do understand your concern. >> >> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Le 30/08/2017 à 16:30, Guido Medina a écrit : >>> > Google forums are nice for that, I don't like the old way of handling >>> > forums TBH i.e.: e-mails, >>> > Google forums also have nice code formatting, friendly search >>> capability, >>> > etc. >>> >>> Certainly not. This is the 'best' way to fragment the community : >>> creating mailing list/discussion group on whatever social media one >>> would like. Plus we have no visibility about when private companies like >>> Google will decide to brutally discontinue the server - as they already >>> did many times in the past -, losing all the history at the same time. >>> >>> I'd rather split the existing list into a SSHd list, a FTPServer list, a >>> MINA list, etc. >>> >>> -- >>> Emmanuel Lecharny >>> >>> Symas.com >>> directory.apache.org >>> >>> >> >
