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@miah And indeed, I can also run my own Mastadon server - but even I dont do that I pay someone to do it. It's just not a viable answer for someone who uses Slack day to day. Until we find ways to deal with these super hard to solve problems, these suggestions are largely not useful. Many of us have tried corporate IRC servers and lol, how bad does that go. 25 comments
@miah Did all your business users in the company, CEO and all other executives and sales etc, use IRC?  @ripienaar Yes, everybody was on irc. We all chatted regularly. The shift happened more than a year after we got bought out. Similarly everybody was on our github enterprise. I could tag _anybody_ in the company, and we all had access to repos. It wasn't uncommon for somebody from a different department to send in a PR to fix something that was bothering them. I patched some text on our web app while I worked in ops (weird gendering of things that didnt need it). @ripienaar For a time Bank Simple was amazing, one of the best jobs of my career... up until our buyout =) We tried to keep things great then, and in many ways we got better, but in so many others we got much much worse.  @miah @ripienaar My heart goes out to y’all, I was a customer for years up until the bitter end. It was always clear the love and care that went into the product. @miah @ripienaar I *really* wanted to have our whole 50-60 head company on our Gitlab enterprice license since we were trying to get more people engaged in the PO meetings. Unfortunately pricing just wouldn't work out. Enterprise productivity tools like that need a "guest pass" seat tier or something so we can at least get our whole directory taggable from the discussion tools or something. @ripienaar I don’t see why they couldn’t? There are significantly more arcane systems (e.g. SAP) in common use. @ripienaar @Serenus I think most people in "tech" ran a simple command line irc client, while everybody else ran the Mac Colloquy. We had a standard of "no Windows" on the server network, and after buyout our new "compliance" broke that rule, ripped out our slapd and replaced it with Active Directory.  @miah @ripienaar mattermost you can also host as a slack alternative or matrix, if you want to do the activity pub thing.. and federate, and have e2e both have pretty slick free mobile clients  @ripienaar @miah ircd is just one apt install away. That is MUCH easier and lighter than mastodon. Zulip is so much better than Slack (topics not threads! so much better— and i am someone who cannot choose an e-mail subject to save my life), also better than IRC. Zulip is what we moved to. Free software that you *can* self-host but also available as a service. I think for many it will hit that sweet spot between convenience and freedom/control. Though i don't want to derail the main thread too much, which is that IRC is alive and well. `irc.indymedia.org` is where @mayfirst and some other groups we are part of are on, everything else is on `libera.chat` i think.   @thaodan @mlncn People don't know how to triage email. They try to read absolutely everything, get overwhelmed and then stop reading anything at all. If I get a hundred emails in a day, 80 of them came from a noisy automation reporting status changes and 15 came from some form of corporate chatter. I only *need* to read those last 5. Those 80 automated emails aren't too much because a) I ignore them and b) I don't immediately delete them so I can still go back for it later as needed. Yeah there's definitely a lot of benefit to IRC/Slack/whathaveyou that has nothing to do with features compared to e-mail and more to do with "this bucket of things i care about is HERE". But also: - Zulip lets you move messages between topics, not so possible in e-mail @mlncn @gooba42 Mixing chats with long-form isn't a good idea IMHO. I don't think the medium email has anything to do with keeping etiquette or posting styles. You can always quote more than needed. |
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@ripienaar We ran our own IRC & ZNC servers at Bank Simple for years. We of course switched to Slack after we got bought because... probably because management wanted to read the private messages of an employee.