![]() Yeah, I agree about the setup and maintenance. Let's see how it evolves after being bought by GitHub. I guess the perfect tool could be a mix of Forums, Messaging Platforms, and Social Networks. There are definitely lots of work to do in the area of tooling for online communities. I don't know if forums are the answer to all the problems, Slack for sure isn´t. Maybe we need a free "Forum as a Service" platform? Its not like there aren´t modern forum platforms like Discourse, Flarum or NodeBB. Reddit is probably the closest I can think of. Forums have emojis and custom signatures!!įorums seems a pretty decent alternative to Slack for a community, but it seems nobody uses forums anymore? what was the last time you visit one? For technology related stuff, I really can't remember. ![]() Slack is very limited in terms of moderation tools. Slack allows you to send direct messages to someone. Slack has threads and messages, Forums has threads and messages. ![]() Slack have channels, forums have sub-forums and topics. Slack is closed, Forums can be public or private. Let's compare Slack with that very old thing called Forums: And how do we communicated back then? Forums!! The quantity and popularity yes, but I remember belonging to a couple in the early 2000s, mostly related to games. So I was thinking, online communities are not really a new thing. At least you only need one account, but it´s a platform more optimized for gamers, not for tech communities or other kinds. You need to create an account in every single slack group you want to join and it's a pain to find all the groups you belong.ĭiscord is getting popular as Slack alternative.No one will try to find something useful in a channel with 1000+ unread messages. Its hard to find useful information afterward unless you are actively involved in the conversation.When you reach that limit, the older messages will start to disappear. Most of the communities I know have the free slack plan which limits the number of messages you can have. The content is not indexable by search engines. You need to find an invite link somewhere to join. ![]() Slack might be a great tool for internal communication in a company (and even this is debatable), but for communities, I see a couple of problems: Right now I think I might be in 10 or so different Slack groups from PHP to Kubernetes. From meetups and conferences groups to specialized programming languages or tools. Slack is being used a lot as a platform for online communities to interact. ![]()
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