![]() The moderation team is aware of the pain folks are having with Slack as we grow. If someone else have the motivation to try all this and report on their Slack->Zulip transition I think it could be valuable for the community. I’ve not touched it since, so never tried the Slack import yet. ![]() Then I wanted to integrate with our LDAP, trying to follow the different docs there and issues on github but couldn’t make it. Installation process is not the friendliest! Doable though. So I tried the “Devolopment Environment” installation. Currently my VPS is to cheap to try that. For trying the “Zulip in Production” install, you need to deploy with a domain name, otherwise the certbot step (for https) will fail. So I’ve tried to set up my own zulip instance following the docs but it got fairly complicated. I wanted to try the “import discussions and users” from Slack feature but it is not accessible through the online interface, or couldn’t find it. I like most of it, especially the fact that discussions can have topics (like emails) so you can follow only threads of discussions of interest to you, not necessarily read every channel message. Roughly a month ago, I was interested in testing zulip also, so I’ve created an online instance to try it. To share a bit of my experience with zulip: ), and people could connect with whatever client the want (there are IRC web apps, desktop apps, mobile apps, etc).įor reference: FAQ: The history of Elm Slack History ![]() The Elm community could potentially host their own IRC server (e.g. Of course, it does make sense to have multiple channels for different topics. There is an #elm channel on #Freenode, but I think the existence of the Slack community takes away a lot of traffic. They’re even nicer to search through: (this is hosted using a project called irclogger). NixOS, a different community for the Nix Linux distribution and Nix package manager, also has an IRC channel on Freenode ( #nixos), and their logs are available as well. Here’s an example of a site hosting the #haskell IRC logs: There are several websites that make the logs from the channel available, dating back years. The Haskell community has an extremely popular IRC channel ( #haskell on the Freenode IRC server). There self-hosted solutions out there that can be operated like this Discourse server. What’s the solution? Probably to stop using Slack. ![]() Slack charges $8 per user per month, and the Elm slack currently has 16,000 members… so that would be $128,000 a month. Ultimately, to get all the features, the workspace owner needs to pay per user. Slack isn’t designed to be used the way that open source communities use it, to the detriment of every community that does. ![]()
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