One of my clients switched from Campfire to Slack recently, among admins and ops and management teams to communicate suing changes and incidents. We still use email and a host of other comms channels, secured and otherwise.
I'd vote to keep this mailing list as is, for all of the reasons previously mentioned. Should we try a new comms mechanism as well? Perhaps. ---p On Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 7:24 AM Matthew Barr <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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