@seancorfield Thanks for answering! I understand the economics of it. Is it the right tool for the job then? Slack on this plan is plainly unusable for private messages. I've got a bunch of people I talked to and we have no idea anymore what we talked about!

Which is a rather weird outcome for a tool employed to connect people and build a community. Would other tools like Disqus, Telegram or Yapster etc be viable alternative?

Is there chat in the Disqus?

afaik Disqus is just a blog comment hosting service. Not really useful in our case.

Discord discussion channel here https://discordapp.com/channels/280033776820813825/310129155226337280 And gitter https://gitter.im/clojure/general (old) Reddit discussion here https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/6vxqro/lets_settle_this_vote_slack_vs_other_platforms/ P.S. https://medium.com/ignation/time-to-replace-slack-who-will-win-mattermost-or-riot-matrix-a090e9cdc219

Ah... there's another Clojurian discord server https://discordapp.com/invite/v9QMy9D

@victor.cleja Good catch, Discord, (not discus). Perhaps other services are even better

I believe there has been lots of discussion over what "the best" software systems to use for communication. There is no "official" recommendation here -- there is the net effect of many individuals making their own decisions what media to use for communicating.

@dennisa @victor.cleja This sort of discussion happens fairly regular in #community-development (which was created long ago for exactly that purpose). This channel is intended to be for people asking for help using Slack. In #community-development there are links to wikis that have recorded the overview of such discussions.

The r/Clojure Reddit sidebar (right hand side) links to most of the known Clojure communities out there. Anyone is welcome to join any/all of them.

Is it a sign that I'm old that the r/Clojure Reddit sidebar doesn't mention the Google groups? 🙂