[Nix-dev] Open source team messaging: mattermost

[Jonn Mostovoy]

Dear Wout,

you can't grep discord. Search there is atrocious.
Slack, on the other hand has an amazing full text search engine, which is a
huge part in its success.
However, as search over slack has some heuristics, when I need plain dumb
(or pretty elaborate) grep, I can't run it over history of Slack.

Picking the tool is about engineering tradeoffs. Right now, IRC is optimal
given optimization parameters, starting from not sharding the community,
going through network resilience and system's fault tolerance, ending with
the degree of democracy IRC provides.
On Mar 8, 2016 7:30 AM, "Wout Mertens" <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:

> After having used Slack and Discord for a while, I can tell you that
> having the recent chat log available with a quick scroll up is very handy.
> Conversations can continue over a longer period of time.
>
> With IRC, you have to open your client, fire off your question a few times
> and hope that someone will know the answer eventually. I can't have IRC
> open at work all day.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:55 AM Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:
>
>> On 16-03-01 11:46pm, Teo Klestrup Röijezon wrote:
>> > Plain IRC sucks.
>>
>> It’s true, but it f* works.
>>
>> Especially for developers, devs who can’t configure an IRC client?
>> Are those people devs?
>>
>> But I know the pain.
>>
>> Hm, we even use IRC as main communication tool in our Hackerspace,
>> and so far even non-tech people managed to get a basic setup running.
>> Maybe no bouncer, but that’s not required strictly speaking.
>>
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> Wout.
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