On Nov 4, 2016, at 9:47 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > Slack… isn’t open, which concerns me a lot. Right now they’re tolerant of > clients other than their own, so it’s technically possible to attach > archiving and to pull data from Slack, but the terms of service permit Slack > to revoke that permission at any time. > > It’s also not memorable: If you’re using Slack’s free offering, you get a > searchable window of the 10,000 most recent messages. Since Slack follows the > dynamics of chat, 10k messages pass through fairly quickly. I’d tell you how > quickly, but you need to be on Slack’s paid tier to get statistics at a fine > enough grain to determine. > > This brings me to my third objection to Slack: it’s EXPENSIVE. The paid tier > starts at USD 8 per user per month. Looking at the admin panel for a smallish > social Slack I use puts that into proportion: $2,640/yr for 33 active users. > I suspect the pricetag is beyond Agora’s budget.
Someone on IRC (irony) reminded me: IRC is a discussion forum, not an official forum, and therefore a lot less sensitive to these concerns. I’d be more than happy to have more discussion fora, either experimentally or permanently, even including Slack. -o
