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[TODO] create a nim slack team #7418
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Welcome to gitter.im/nim-lang/Nim ! :) |
I'm aware of that; however I miss many of the functionalities in the more popular, widely used slack:
take a look at the D slack to see how well these work (I can send invite if needed) |
Why all your proposals look like "do as in D"? |
I'm much more familiar with D and interested in seeing whether nim would be a good fit for my next projects instead of D ; besides it's always a good idea to borrow/steal features and tools from other languages (see also https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/ to track these) |
Unfortunately Slack will close its IRC integration on May 15th: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP. Also, we already have Discord, Gitter and Matrix bridges with IRC. We can also add #nim-foo, #nim-games, #nim-embedded like what was done for #nim-offtopic (though it's not as easily discoverable as on Slack). On another note, Sketch, Bootstrap, React, Node discussion are also happening a lot on Spectrum. In any case, whatever we do I think the first requirement is a Gitter, IRC, Matrix and Discord bridge. |
@mratsim |
We already have a Slack team. It's just a case of providing a way for anyone to join and a bridge between Slack<->IRC |
@dom96 do you mind sending me an invite for slack at timothee DOT cour2 AT gmail DOT com ? |
@timotheecour Slack is not bad, but it has some problems: Too many threads can also lead to fragmentation, you have a limited history for unpaid customers, and I can't see how easy would the slack threads map to gitter/irc |
I recently discovered Keybase (eg https://keybase.io/) (which launched slack-like product in sept 2017) and been trying it, advantages (for this use case) are:
plus:
cons:
So, once chat search is implemented, this could be a viable option |
Well I close this as rejected, slack seems to be the wrong solution for open source projects. A slack bridge is still very welcome as all other forms of bridges to other chat platforms. |
I have my own personal slack bridge I use for my account using matterbridge. It would be nice to have an official bridge. I had proposed bridging the Telegram group in the past but everyone wasn't as receptive to the proliferation of bridges. I don't see the difference in 3 vs 8 but that's just me. |
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To answer your questions:-
Here's a simple
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@genotrance thanks! I'm running into issues, eg: [0000] INFO irc: Connecting chat.freenode.net:7000 I try putting the username and password I use when connecting to https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=nim putting these 3 fields in Nick, NickServNick and NickServPassword results in
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Makes no sense why it doesn't work. Probably try removing the password=""? Anyway, best to check out the sample toml for guidance. https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/blob/master/matterbridge.toml.sample You could also just try nickserv auth rather than sasl. That's what I used to do until I ran into the following issue. |
(also asked on https://www.reddit.com/r/nim/comments/6jqsjx/anyone_interested_in_having_a_nim_slack_team/ but that question was closed for commens)
In D we have a forum and IRC, but after slack was added it became very popular and a lot of discussions happen there now.
In particular the channels and threads are a neat way to organize discussions as opposed to having a single channel and single thread. Also slack can support IRC integration IIRC
Lots of people use slack (eg at work) and would make switching back and forth bw nim slack and other team slacks easy.
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