@meow: Maybe, you want to create an island in a virtual reality.

That way, you don't have to buy an island to live there

Virtualization of human reduces cost of living.

Become a ghost floating on computer networks.

we can chat about this on the #C03RZGPG3

(remember that 4,800 people see all the messages here so another channel may be more suitable)

Actually, I muted #C03RZGPG1 a long time ago.

that's the channel we are in right now

I muted every channel so that I am notified of mentions only.

@seancorfield: help!

As an admin, I'll ask that you take the conversation to an appropriate channel. This is an unpartable channel so we discourage discussions here.

Please

What is this channel for other than counting the number of people on the group?

Think of it as the "lobby". Slack requires that everyone be joined to one or two channels so every Slack tends to get a large channel that is not practical for conversations.

any one got ideas for building a clojure app for a newlearner coming from Ruby?

maybe suggest porting some existing Ruby gem?

@amrit: If you could please, look at the last few messages in this channel explaining how the general channel is like the lobby of a building with all 4,842 of us in it listening, then look at the list of 215 channels for one better suited to your question and ask it there. The #C053AK3F9 channel would be a good place to start. And welcome to Clojure.

apologies @meow

@amrit: No need to apologize. It's an annoying limitation of Slack and we just remind people when we can. Again, welcome to Clojure.

#C03RZGPG1 on http://functionalprogramming.slack.com is used for talking about programming in general and functional programming.

It seems nobody found a good use for #C03RZGPG1 on clojurians.

#C03RZGPG1 and #C03S1KBA2 are a bit redundant, imho the latter shouldnt exist (since we can't get rid of general)

Or it should be jvmclojure if that s the intent

Why do you think #C03S1KBA2 is redundant? It captures clojure topics well. I cannot think of a better name, yet.

general and clojure have more or less the same scope, and one of them is not deletable

but yeah, I agree about the naming

then again this is "clojurians" at the root, so it's not so bad

slack is good ux but poor conversation model vs Braid

#C0J20813K

@meow: Several slacks i’m in moved #C03RZGPG1 to #admin-announcements and created a #chit-chat channel

I'm just the court jester. One of the admins would have to speak to that. 🕹️ (because there was no jester emoji)

pkobrien: I thought you were hitting the hay 40hrs late 😛

Clojurians only sleep every other day.

Totally OT but I stayed up for 66 hours and then slept for 7. Feeling good now.

#C03RZGPG3 to discuss further

Re: naming of #C03RZGPG1 -- raised with the admin team for input. Totally agree that a more specific name would help. Also updating the Purpose and Current topic would help too I think. Expect changes "soon".

sounds good. can we rename it #shhhh ?