Originally shared by Thom Thomas
The Ploos Community Chat is a Slack workspace set up by Google+ refugees for Google+ refugees.
Access is relatively open but is by invitation only given the moderation paradigm inherent to Slack as a “workspace” oriented platform.
For the invitation link, let me know via Google+ or via diaspora thomthomas@pluspora.com
Other G+ refugees and pluspora podders have the invitation link and can share it. Ask around.
The Ploos Community Chat was set up with the following in mind:
1.) Many see Slack as a complement to other solutions, not necessarily a solution unto itself.
2.) To be a place for people to test drive Slack’s functionality and to ascertain what it can add to a community.
3.) To be a place where we can have real time (and time shifted) conversations with G+ friends in a more ephemeral manner that brings with it a more instant gratification
4.) To have fun trying out a new way to interact with our G+ friends.
5.) To talk in real time about platforms like diaspora* (#pluspora channel), PlexodusWiki (there is a channel for that too), MeWe and other migration related topics.
There is also a #floof channel and custom emojis.
There has been some discussion about using Slack for safe spaces on the Internet for communities.
The pros and cons of Slack have been discussed in the #safe-spaces channel on the Ploos Community Chat.
For additional information on other established G+ refugee destinations, check out the awesome resource Edward Morbius is compiling over at PlexodusWiki[1].
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[1] https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Established_G%2B_Exodus_Communities
The Ploos Community Chat is a Slack workspace set up by Google+ refugees for Google+ refugees.
Access is relatively open but is by invitation only given the moderation paradigm inherent to Slack as a “workspace” oriented platform.
For the invitation link, let me know via Google+ or via diaspora thomthomas@pluspora.com
Other G+ refugees and pluspora podders have the invitation link and can share it. Ask around.
The Ploos Community Chat was set up with the following in mind:
1.) Many see Slack as a complement to other solutions, not necessarily a solution unto itself.
2.) To be a place for people to test drive Slack’s functionality and to ascertain what it can add to a community.
3.) To be a place where we can have real time (and time shifted) conversations with G+ friends in a more ephemeral manner that brings with it a more instant gratification
4.) To have fun trying out a new way to interact with our G+ friends.
5.) To talk in real time about platforms like diaspora* (#pluspora channel), PlexodusWiki (there is a channel for that too), MeWe and other migration related topics.
There is also a #floof channel and custom emojis.
There has been some discussion about using Slack for safe spaces on the Internet for communities.
The pros and cons of Slack have been discussed in the #safe-spaces channel on the Ploos Community Chat.
For additional information on other established G+ refugee destinations, check out the awesome resource Edward Morbius is compiling over at PlexodusWiki[1].
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[1] https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Established_G%2B_Exodus_Communities
Sounds interesting. I rather liked Slack and was on it a bunch at my previous gig. Why Slack specifically? I'm asking out of curiosity.
ReplyDeleteI've used Slack a lot (mostly in my previous work life but my girlfriend also set up a channel for us to chat while she's working). For the purpose you describe, yes, it could be useful. As a long-term replacement for G+ ... maybe not so much. Among other things, it's a closed ecosystem, and one of the joys of the Plus has been stumbling onto strangers who become friends.
ReplyDeleteDon McCollough Because I had used it in a previous job, loved it for its efficiency and for its fun. I liked the idea of channels and wanted to experiment with it as a compliment to some other community platform.
ReplyDeletePat Kight I agree 100% about it not replacing G+ or bring able to replicate the serendipity of public posting - something I'd come to love about G+.
ReplyDeleteSlack is more suited to project or community based communications. And it doesn't have to be Slack per say, that's just the platform I've grown fond of.
Thom Thomas I realize that Discord is geared more toward the gamer crowd, but I found it an OK replacement for Slack (until I saw that I could use slack w/o a enterprise license), and it seems a popular app.
ReplyDeleteDon McCollough I installed Discord once but never got around to using it. I hope to do some research to find point for point comparisons re: slack vs. discord.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any further observations?
I was looking at Slack or Discord to replace Hangouts as I was expecting it to be killed off before G+ due to how they were nerfing the consumer Hangouts on web and mobile.
ReplyDeleteDon McCollough I found Slack better than Hangouts for group chat because it had persistent "channels" for conversations that one could join or leave at will. In a Hangouts group chat, that wasn't as easy to accomplish.
ReplyDeleteI think that is where Hip Chat and Slack really made a name for themselves. They took an ancient IRC modality and put some enterprise UX shine on it and bam! Changed the way people communicate at work. For the better in my opinion.
Thom Thomas Indeed. The only "issue" with Discord are spam bots that float around. They're working on a better fix, although I've not seen any yet.
ReplyDeleteThat's something Slack can avoid if your workspace is by invitation link only.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Slack is not free, and the more users you have, the more it costs.
ReplyDeletePat Kight Actually, it is free. That said, it also has a paid tier for more robust features.
ReplyDeleteSlack is $8.00 per month per user. I cannot ask my community members to use this site. It it were not for that though.
ReplyDeleteDave White Slack is free. It also had a paid version. The free version suits many needs.
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ReplyDeleteThe free plan won't last. Eventually you hit the message limit and then everyone will get upset you can't see older messages anymore (sometimes when just a few days old). Per user fee will then kill this option.
ReplyDeleteRudy Wilkinson Jr that depends on the use case. There is a tech community in Memphis that had been using the free version of Slack for hundreds of community members for years now.
ReplyDeleteThey probably only have a 3 month window of history and it doesn't matter to them.
If the use case doesn't work for one's needs, I'd recommend looking to some other platform.
From my perspective, with regards to communities, Slack could be a complimentary tool to be used along with some other platform.
Thom Thomas In the case of me community it wouldn't be. I have over 1.5 million members if even a a quarter would join it wont be free. I did check it out.
ReplyDeleteDave White there is no limit to the number of users for the free account.
ReplyDeleteThe only limit is the number of messages that are accessible by archive. That limit is a rolling 10,000.
I see chat platforms like Slack as more ephemeral and temporary than other forms of social media. Like verbal conversations, whether face to face or over the phone, the record of conversation, in most situations, has to be remembered in our brains. There is no indexable archive (at least not yet 🙂.)
Similarly, chat communication can provide instantaneous interactions with the side benefit of being text based, interactive, and depending on the volume of messages, buffered for temporary reference.
So, use chat for immediacy and social bonding and use more "permanent" mediums for longer more in-depth threaded conversations for reference.
If one is looking to replace a G+ community with Slack alone, in a lot of use cases, I think they'll be disappointed.
If G+ wasn't going away, and I ran a thriving community, I'd still think about setting up some kind of chat destination.
Thom Thomas That could be why some are choosing MeWe since it has a chat built-in to each group
ReplyDeleteDon McCollough I like a lot about MeWe. No public posting and the insistence on uploading my contacts to their servers is off putting to me.
ReplyDeleteThom Thomas Agreed, that is why I'm still hopping around places. Been moving my collections to Blogger since that is one aspect of G+ I've not been able to find elsewhere besides a blog.
ReplyDeleteDon McCollough how are you moving the content?
ReplyDeleteThom Thomas Manually right now. I'm picking and choosing what to take since some were season specific and it'd be odd to have a post referring to spring/summer now that it's fall. They're nothing important though, just my creative ramblings
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