Not that this actually changes the email vs slack/IRC question, but has anyone seen anything like Zulip / Zephr?
I still vastly prefer that this list be email, because we do have the IRC channel. But it sounds like people haven't seen the concept of threaded IRC-style systems, beyond a channel. This allows a 2nd level of topic inside a channel. For a company, it can be very handy to have a team based channel, or a engineering one, and yet have multiple discussions inside it.. Sent from my iPad On Jul 13, 2015, at 7:13 AM, Matt Disney <[email protected]> wrote: Allan, thanks for asking the question. I love Slack and use it at work. I don't personally view Slack as a suitable alternative for email but it's maybe better for chat. Maybe this is obvious but there are two major axes I care about for community/team collaboration: synchronous/async and threaded/non-threaded. Asynchronous is important in a community where people want/should have access to the messages but operate in different ways/times. Synchronous is responsive when the community is bought in on it; it's also more disruptive to your focus than asynchronous. And, looking at threading vs non-threading, I've found that I generally much prefer non-threaded discussion like IRC and Slack (yes, you can make channels in both but channels != threads) but that doesn't scale all that well to large communities because of how hectic the communication becomes. At a higher scale, threaded discussions seem to work better. I think that's probably true for many people but it's at least the case for me. All that to say: Slack and email are in different quadrants in the view I described. Slack and IRC are in the same quadrant though. I agree with others who are disappointed that Slack is less configurable than IRC. But it turns out, for me, having a well-functioning client I enjoy using across multiple platforms is more important than being able to customize the client beyond what Slack provides. Speaking of that, can anyone recommend a mobile IRC client they like? Thanks, Matt On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Allan Irving <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi all, > > How do we feel about trailing Slack instead of discussion lists? I am of > the belief that it would be far better and also has more features than > email. > > http://slack.realm.io is an example of how easy it is for users to sign > up - much like Mailman offers a sign up screen. > > Allan > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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