> > Not enthused with slack. And here's a real question: were you talking > about *instead* of this mailing list?No, certainly not instead of. A mailing list is essential. I'm part of a few slack communities and it seems an excellent platform for realtime discourse and noob baiting. Very sadly the #centos and #rhel freenode irc channels seem to be rather quiet these days and the irc protocol generally seems to be on the way out. IRC is a bit of a poor show when compared to modern platforms like Slack and Mattermost.
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com> wrote:>> >> Not enthused with slack. And here's a real question: were you talking >> about *instead* of this mailing list? > > > No, certainly not instead of. A mailing list is essential. I'm part of a > few slack communities and it seems an excellent platform for realtime > discourse and noob baiting. Very sadly the #centos and #rhel freenode irc > channels seem to be rather quiet these days and the irc protocol generally > seems to be on the way out. IRC is a bit of a poor show when compared to > modern platforms like Slack and Mattermost.I do know groups who have a mailing list and slack/fb and claim the more "progressive users" prefer the more "progressive social media channels" (facebook/slack). For those concerned that people can find what you did on irc, do you really think what is posted on slack is private? It is as private as any social media thingie out there. FYI, in a previous job we ran our own internal irc, which was great when we had to do support (level 1 on the phone could be feeding us all with the info and question and one of us could be providing answer. Caller would be none of the wiser).> _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:50:32PM +0200, Andrew Holway wrote:> No, certainly not instead of. A mailing list is essential. I'm part of a > few slack communities and it seems an excellent platform for realtime > discourse and noob baiting. Very sadly the #centos and #rhel freenode irc > channels seem to be rather quiet these days and the irc protocol generally > seems to be on the way out. IRC is a bit of a poor show when compared to > modern platforms like Slack and Mattermost.Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/ I idle in #centos and #rhel and it doesn't seem particularly quiet. Maybe it's the hours -- that wouldn't change with Slack or any alternatives. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:50:32PM +0200, Andrew Holway wrote: >> No, certainly not instead of. A mailing list is essential. I'm part of a >> few slack communities and it seems an excellent platform for realtime >> discourse and noob baiting. Very sadly the #centos and #rhel freenode irc >> channels seem to be rather quiet these days and the irc protocol generally >> seems to be on the way out. IRC is a bit of a poor show when compared to >> modern platforms like Slack and Mattermost. > > > Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/ >I raise your XKCD with another: https://xkcd.com/1810/> I idle in #centos and #rhel and it doesn't seem particularly quiet. > Maybe it's the hours -- that wouldn't change with Slack or any > alternatives. > > -- > Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos