<div dir="ltr">IRC has been on my radar and in fact it has been suggested a while ago during GROMACS dev discussion, but somehow it has never had enough appeal to get adopted by developers.<div><br></div><div>One likely reason is the barrier to start using IRC and that integration of other productivity tools is quite DYI. AFAIK these are the aspects where slack - and possibly other similar alternatives win: user-friedliness and service-integration e.g. Google hangouts for video calls, Gihub, Dropbox/Box, Github, custom hooks (e.g. we could have jenkins, gerrit messages posted, etc.).<div><br></div><div>Interestingly Slack has won over some communities, a notable example is WP:<br></div><div><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/chat/">https://make.wordpress.org/chat/</a><br></div><div>and this post points out some of the differences between the two and why they've switched to slack.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll wait a bit more, but if there are no competing thoughts I'll set up slack and see how well it works.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br clear="all"><div><div>--<br>Szilárd</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Vedran Miletić <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rivanvx@gmail.com" target="_blank">rivanvx@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>2015-09-29 20:18 GMT+02:00 Szilárd Páll <<a href="mailto:pall.szilard@gmail.com" target="_blank">pall.szilard@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> We are considering to try using a team collaboration tool for GROMACS<br>
> development-related communication (perhaps user hangout room too?).<br>
><br>
> As I have some experience with <a href="http://slack.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">slack.com</a> (not much, though), so I was about<br>
> to go ahead and create a channel, but noticed that it has a slightly<br>
> inconvenient restriction: max 10k messages kept in the history.<br>
><br>
> So I thought I'd ask:<br>
> - does anybody have experience with slack (either good or bad)?<br>
> - does anybody know anything better?<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>How about IRC on <a href="http://freenode.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">freenode.net</a>?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Vedran<br>
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