Clojurians Log v2
community-development
Re: moderation, @plexus and I did a bit of testing of Matrix/Riot’s moderation features and they seemed pretty complete
I haven’t looked at them, but Discord’s moderation tools are one of the advantages that people who have switched often say are better than Slack’s (it comes from the gaming community, after all).
In terms of discoverability, I think the most important aspect is discoverability within the community, of users/channels etc. I don’t think Slack has any advantage in terms of discovering the communities in the first place, at least not that I’m aware of.
yeah can imagine they’re equally good
But I agree with @seancorfield about general UI/UX - I think it’s a more important factor than openness, although I’m sure others will disagree 🙂
Discord does have pretty severe UX issues; placement of things isn't intuitive to a newcomer at all. Might hamper adoption or turn some folks away if they feel it's cluttered or not easy enough to find the right commands or options.
My 2c the small UX differences will be repaid in full by persistent history
Feel free to draft a survey and have folks here review it. Just remember that you can get almost any result you want from a survey, based on how you design the survey -- I could craft a version of this survey that would have people overwhelmingly "vote" to stay here. Also bear in mind that surveys tend to be answered primarily by those who "care" so the vast majority who are "happy with the status quo" probably wouldn't bother to fill it in ("followers" don't care, by definition), so you'd be most likely to get the vocal crowd of Slack-haters responding anyway -- which makes the survey useless.
That is a very good point, just wanted to help in some way 😀 i am also assuming that history is important, but maybe for folks it is not.
If you invite @logbot into a channel, you have history 😈
Until Slack catches us doing that, of course 🙂
And the history in the archive site is pretty hard to use.
It’s actually probably lack of history in DMs that hurts me the most.
Perhaps I should just set up my own Slack for Cursive support, since I’m not really bothered by any of the other aspects of Slack that worry others.
It’s a pain though.
Doesn’t solve the DM problem - but this looks interesting - and is free for communities : http://slackarchive.io/
@cfleming I would think the volume for just Cursive support alone would be sufficiently lower that you'd have a lot less problems with the 10,000 message limit in a dedicated Slack?
@seancorfield Yes, it wouldn’t be a problem there. The only issue is discoverability - it’s much easier being integrated with Clojurians.
@richiardiandrea for you perhaps, but not for others. Please try to remember the trade-offs are very subjective and the people calling for "something other than Slack" are a very tiny minority in this (nearly 10,000 strong) community. Over 9,000 people like Slack enough not to complain or push for an alternative. Seriously. Please bear that in mind.