Slack-like chat (also for GSOC)

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 19:15, Nils Breunese wrote:
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> Slack provides shareable invite links, but they expire. This blog post lists some other options:
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> https://intoli.com/blog/make-a-public-slack-community/
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> Looks like it requires some work, but it’s possible to setup.
> Note that I don’t have a big opinion on whether Slack is a good idea or not.

Apart from being closed-source (well, so is GitHub!), Slack does the
job well only when you are either a paying customer, or when you don't
care about the chat history. Given the good alternatives, I'm not too
thrilled to use it, except if we need to set up something quickly.

Mojca