Meh, not a particularly informative post imo; looks sort of thrown together as content marketing.
Example: There are plenty of reasons to prefer Slack over IRC, but this post doesn’t make it sound like they have actually tried both. Their problem with IRC is entirely a review of the WeeChat IRC client, which is a pretty obscure ncurses-based client. They complain that it’s full of monospace text, and show a screenshot next to the more GUI-looking Slack client. Ok, so use Colloquy (OSX), mIRC (Windows), or Mibbit (web-based), which are a lot more popular than this obscure ncurses client anyway.
The Reactiflux community (which is about the React JS library and other related libraries) recently hit a user cap with their free Slack setup at around 8,000 users, and so they evaluated lots of different options. The discussion is an interesting read by itself, but I also found the weighted team chat comparison spreadsheet useful. Not everyone would apply the same weights of course, but it’s nice to have the data compiled anyway.
In the end, they chose to move from Slack to Discord.
Meh, not a particularly informative post imo; looks sort of thrown together as content marketing.
Example: There are plenty of reasons to prefer Slack over IRC, but this post doesn’t make it sound like they have actually tried both. Their problem with IRC is entirely a review of the WeeChat IRC client, which is a pretty obscure ncurses-based client. They complain that it’s full of monospace text, and show a screenshot next to the more GUI-looking Slack client. Ok, so use Colloquy (OSX), mIRC (Windows), or Mibbit (web-based), which are a lot more popular than this obscure ncurses client anyway.
The Reactiflux community (which is about the React JS library and other related libraries) recently hit a user cap with their free Slack setup at around 8,000 users, and so they evaluated lots of different options. The discussion is an interesting read by itself, but I also found the weighted team chat comparison spreadsheet useful. Not everyone would apply the same weights of course, but it’s nice to have the data compiled anyway.
In the end, they chose to move from Slack to Discord.
When it’s considerably better than all available open-source alternatives? I could’ve guessed as much…