![]() Imagine if we wanted all the people signed up for this Discourse to be able to use it with full privileges: the cost would be over $400,000 per year by my rough calculation. It’s not really suitable for an open source community. It’s 850 yen per user per month (sorry, the website absolutely refuses to give me prices in $US), and twice that if you want features like exporting, not just keeping, your backlogs.Īctually the sheer cost of using Slack is probably the biggest thing against it, in my opinion. The backlogs are still locked up and it’s still per user and still really really expensive. It’s a valid concern about the other options like discord (it has chat logs available via a rest API, but no convenient export feature) and rocketchat (presumably not an issue since it can be self-hosted). One big issue was the ability to get access to historical chat records publicly via a website or some rest API, and the fact that Slack limits chat backlogs if you don’t pay for it (not sure if that’s still the case). So in some since this topic is a rehash of discussions we had then, but notably at that time we didn’t really consider discord or rocketchat (AFAIR). Prefer to use Discourse, IRC, Github, or email. You want something to come onto the radar of the ROS team, you should Slack is officially deprecated: you are free to continue using it, but if Java SIG from a Google Groups mailing list to Discourse. ![]() Proprietary nature of Slack, we launched an experiment migrating the ROS This project is the main monolith web application.Īfter feedback about the failings of Google Groups and the non-open, Gitter is a community for software developers. ![]() To get a better feel than just is mono landing page, you can check out the gitter readme docs here. However, Gitter’s integration with the existing platforms we already use seem like the dead ringer. Although not as polished as Discord, Rocket Chat it is open source, and has similar hosting model like Discourse. I’ve also used Rocket Chat when interacting with the Hyperledger Community. ![]() However, the interface is designed more around the individual, like a social media platform though I haven’t administrated an org on Discord, I’d imagine the community management infrastructure might not be as scailable as with Gitter or Rocket Chat. Given its gaming origins, having features like push-to-talk or voice-activation made sitting in an open-ended VOP enabled chatroom for prolonged discussions quite natural and low barrier. I’ve used Discord before with another software project ( albeit a much smaller example community) and it liked using it, given the UI clients worked well both from an installed application or web browser. ![]()
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