There's still an IRC channel (listed in the footer here). I'm not sure how many people are on there anymore, though.
Thanks! Steve On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:40 AM AJ ONeal (Home) <coola...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not big on online chat these days because to me it seems to be just > giphys and other noise. > > However, I can't stand Slack. I hate that it's closed. Not just closed as > in closed beer, but closed as in closed speech. Everything is silo'd off > into a time-bomb bitbucket. None of the history is preserved. It's not > searchable. If ever something useful goes on, it just goes to the black > hole. I'm also not a fan of how a simple chat app requires more CPU and RAM > than most operating systems... but that's probably true of all of them > these days... > > If it's easy to preserve searchable (i.e. Google-able) history with > Telegram I would be much more in favor of that. Though, admittedly, between > Slack and Discord, and Zoom, and all of the other communication tools that > I'm forced to use if I want to be part of communities, I can't say I'd be > super excited about installing yet one more. > > It really bothers me that all of the popular communication tools are now > walled gardens (email having fallen out of favor). I don't know what to do > about it. > > Nevertheless, my philosophical vote is to use a tool that > > * first and foremost *preserves *and *makes accessible* (i.e. searchable) > useful content > * second aligns with the Linux philosophy to some degree (open, available, > CLI accessible) > * promotes high signal to noise (i.e. more questions and answers than > giphys and tweets) > > If it's possible to meet goal 0 by using some sort of bot plugin with slack > that creates a web page out of the history (just like the IRC bots of old) > I'm not terribly opposed to using Slack, but I prefer the community ethos > of discord. > > AJ ONeal > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
