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    Is slack the best concentrator? If I wanted to host a discussion of various apartment represented as craigslist links, I’d tend towards a private subreddit. Or maybe a lobster.

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      All the cool kids live in Slack. it’s like Emacs, but with the Lisp replaced by IRC.

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        Slack really needs to work a lot on the bugginess and responsiveness of their app if they want to get anywhere near as useful as Emacs or IRC in my book :P

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          Slack really needs to work a lot on the bugginess and responsiveness of their app

          I don’t know if it’s any better on other platforms, but on my Mac it sits hogging 15-20% of a core pretty much all the time. I’ve gotten so annoyed with it that I’ve stopped using it. Not a great advertisement for Electron, TBH.

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        If your goal is to fan out to a really large audience, you probably can’t do better than Twitter, which has this almost magical effect of pointing your words towards the strangers who need them.

        But then you need someplace else to actually have the conversation.