I know that some G+ communities wind up more as chat forums, where the discussion simply continues until it fills up...
I know that some G+ communities wind up more as chat forums, where the discussion simply continues until it fills up and goes on to the next post in the community. Slack might be one place for those types of discussions to migrate to. A workspace for such a discussion group would have assorted channels for the topics and so on.General drawback with Slack is that the free verison will only keep so much history before deleting it, so its searchability is reduced unless you want to pay for it (but then that's their model). Big plusses: no ads, of course. You can post pictures, accounts, and there's even one level reply-threading.
I’ve got some friends talking about trying Slack
ReplyDeleteAn opinion on slack from EFF:
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Personally I like slack just fine. If I was plotting the overthrow of King Arthur IV in my kingdom, I would be more picky, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteSlack is not really suitable. Cost per user for more than 10000 lines of chat history is prohibitive - especially when you consider it is just irc...
ReplyDeleteWe use Slack for chat for Storium players and it's fine. We're on a free account so we lose our history, but we live with that. The big problem is that if people post pictures privately (in DMs or private channels) and then leave, not even admin can get to them to delete them, so they gradually eat away at your allowance. We have to do a picture purge now and then and that helps but like I say, we can't touch anything posted privately.
ReplyDeleteAnn Smyth Oh, that's interesting. There's no way to get rid of those? You have to wait for them to age out?
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, there's shared slack channels possible, so it might also be possible to do a distrbuted slack federation, with 100-1000 people per free workspace...though I don't know where the shared channel allowance disk space gets allocated
ReplyDeleteCindy Brown they don't even age out. You are stuck with them. We're figuring eventually we'll run out of room and have to decamp to another Slack.
ReplyDeleteSo pictures never age out but posts and comments (or whatever they are called over there) do? Weird.
ReplyDeleteWeird. You'd think they could supply something that would let you delete them sight unseen (to protect privacy) at the least.
ReplyDeleteFor me the aging out thing is a feature not a bug. Bummer that it doesn’t work for pictures though
ReplyDeleteYeah, that''s areally weird loophole. Change it to paid, clear it out, then change back to free?
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