![]() It was actually fun to be there.Ĭhat has a much lower barrier to entry than forum posts, and you actually have the ability to have more realtime communication with people. I got into programming by lurking on various channels on Freenode (IRC) ~ 2004. Generally, i believe the lower barrier to entry, and the more fun-like the system you are using, the stronger a community you’ll build. I guess technically it has everything that Facebook has, and is more powerful, but it’s just not where the community hangs out. Put in another way - Discourse is like Google Plus. We should go where the user is, not ask the user to relocate. Looking at our core values, I’d argue moving away from slack is not in the theme of having an incredible user experience. It definitely is harder for people to manage. I think the testament to that is how many users post on Slack every day (I believe slack out numbers discuss today, I see 6 new slack threads yesterday, v/s 1-2 that I see on discourse). However, I believe we should continue to support slack for the following reasons Keeping Users First Discuss should always be given priority over slack. I’m not disagreeing with the majority of points here. May 27: Is group chat making you sweat? - Signal v. But, I think we should carefully weigh the effort required to maintain the Slack community against the user experience we can provide to our open source users. Of course, building a community anywhere is hard, and it has taken a lot of time for us to build our community on Slack. The feature set of the tool wouldn’t matter – and this is true for say Hacker News, Reddit, etc., none of which are chat platforms.Īnd apparently, Ghost moved away entirely from Slack to Discourse after they hit 11K folks on Slack: ![]() In particular, this post by Sam, the co-founder of Discourse: Should Ember better define its use of Slack? - #66 by sam - Meta - Ember.JS, which correctly says that the community would go where the core team is. ![]() OTOH, it has the power of “instant connection,” which gets more people engaged faster.Īlso, came across this post: Effectively using Discourse together with group chat Even the solutions on Slack get unsearchable fast. Discourse definitely allows us to keep track of questions better – while Slack messages can easily get lost in the pile. However, now that we’re doing a renewed focus on UX, I’ve started to think about how can we provide an incredible experience. In fact, we “tried” to move away from Slack for our open source users years ago, as you can see in this note: I’ve been divided about this for many years. ![]()
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