Since nobody really uses IRC anymore (RIP) and slack costs, Discord might
not be a terrible alternative pending something... FLOSSier. Honestly I
like it much better than slack and you don't have to pay for it at all.

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:26 PM Elizabeth K. Joseph <l...@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 7:24 PM Philip Ballew <philipbal...@ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> > What about a slack channel? Many people are logged in to slack for work
> and can then keep the channel open to hang out there.
>
> I wanted to cycle back to this because I wanted to make sure people
> know they're being heard. Slack is incredibly expensive, and if you
> don't pay for it, you don't have long term archives. As such, it's a
> very poor practical solution for open source projects, in addition to
> the proprietary nature of it that makes it a poor ethical choice.
>
> As for alternate tooling, we don't have the resources right now to
> host anything ourselves.
>
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