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viesti 2017-03-23T05:43:58.617972Z

ah, didn't occur to me yesterday, should be invited by default :)

seancorfield 2017-03-23T05:51:38.657461Z

That's not how Slack works @viesti ๐Ÿ™‚

seancorfield 2017-03-23T05:51:54.658772Z

(but, yeah, that would be convenient)

viesti 2017-03-23T05:53:17.665680Z

was already thinking if the community could pay for history

viesti 2017-03-23T05:54:33.672197Z

kinda looses a piece of slack functionality this, but irc does not keep history either without a similar bot

seancorfield 2017-03-23T05:57:08.685304Z

Slack's monthly fee would be astronomical.

seancorfield 2017-03-23T05:58:50.694121Z

(fwiw, we've had this discussion repeatedly over the years -- and the irony that Slack's 10k message limit "hides" these repeated discussions is not lost on those of us who've "fought this battle" many times!)

seancorfield 2017-03-23T06:02:30.715462Z

I must admit, it would be a great feature for Slack to auto-invite certain users into any new channel... but I can pretty much only think of it being used for adding logbots to new channels, which of course runs completely counter to Slack's commercial program ๐Ÿ™‚

viesti 2017-03-23T06:14:46.780916Z

:D

viesti 2017-03-23T06:16:25.789563Z

not the only community figuring this out I bet

seancorfield 2017-03-23T06:37:32.903428Z

It used to be that 5,000 was pretty much a hard limit, then it was 8,000. Now? I'm not sure. We're at 9,000+...

viesti 2017-03-23T09:53:25.632844Z

yep, they might increase in the future. I did know about the history issue, but was hilarious to find out history of #powderkeg reaches to 16th, only a week back from now, while looking for a message that I posted just over a week ago ๐Ÿ™‚

viesti 2017-03-23T09:54:13.642815Z

image one being on a holiday, could sorely miss out chat history ๐Ÿ™‚

seancorfield 2017-03-23T16:19:34.713712Z

Slack sends weekly statistics to the admin team. We typically see 15,000-20,000 messages a week here, so seeing even a week of message history is a luxury ๐Ÿ™‚

darshanime 2017-03-23T16:47:20.288574Z

can the community consider Zulip?

darshanime 2017-03-23T16:47:38.294769Z

Or even Gitter (it will be opensourced soon)

seancorfield 2017-03-23T17:54:13.650484Z

#community-development is the place for that discussion โ€” and, yes, nearly all of these things have been discussed and tried, and there are many aspects of running a large community that just donโ€™t work on most of those alternatives. That channel has a link to a community document listed stuff thatโ€™s been tried and why it wouldnโ€™t work or why folks donโ€™t like it.

seancorfield 2017-03-23T17:55:17.672554Z

(and there is a Clojure community set up on Gitter, but very few people have wanted to switch from Slack)

seancorfield 2017-03-23T17:57:02.708810Z

https://gitter.im/clojure/general has just 34 people, but there are a few projects (cider/emacs, Onyx) that have active Gitter communities.

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