<html><body><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Hey Chris,</div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">As I've mentioned Slack isn't a good choice for open communities. It's really designed for businesses.</div></div><div><br>On Dec 07, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Christopher Allen <cma@bitemyapp.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content">For that, there's <a href="http://fpchat.com/" data-mce-href="http://fpchat.com/">http://fpchat.com/</a> which is an established Slack<br>community. The #haskell channel alone has 1,208 people in it right<br>now.<br><br>On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Tomas Carnecky<br><tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Usability matters. It's easier to tell people to open a browser window and</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">point them at a URL than tell them to download an IRC chat client and how to</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">connect to the server and...</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:41 PM William Yager <will.yager@gmail.com> wrote:</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">What are the advantages of this over the #haskell IRC on freenode? It's</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">very active, usually with over 1500 nicks at any given time.</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">I generally prefer IRC to any of these hip web chat solutions because IRC</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">is client-agnostic and very rugged against companies folding or deciding</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">they don't want to host a project any more. Basically the only way to kill</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">an IRC channel is through social attrition, whereas any social value built</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">up in hosted chat services might disappear overnight.</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">The one major advantage of hosted chats over IRC is that they work better</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">with mobile users, but I don't think that's very relevant for haskell dev.</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Will</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Ben Spencer <ben.richard.spencer@me.com></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">wrote:</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Why Gitter you might ask?</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">_______________________________________________</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Haskell-Cafe mailing list</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to:</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe" data-mce-href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe</a></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">_______________________________________________</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Haskell-Cafe mailing list</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to:</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe" data-mce-href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe</a></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.</blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br>Chris Allen<br>Currently working on <a href="http://haskellbook.com" data-mce-href="http://haskellbook.com">http://haskellbook.com</a><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>