Chat venue?

[ali-ramadhan]

Maybe not the best place to put this, but wondering if having some sort of chat (like IRC) would be good. Might be better for more casual/quick discussions than Discourse? Might be good to set up early to early users have a place to hang out?

We kind of discussed this in the past, and decided we might not want to use Slack as it's proprietary and limit your history (although it's a zero-headache solution).

We'll want something with a Good UI and accessibility through browser (users shouldn't have to install a new program or app). Seems like we'll have to self-host and self-manage if we want unlimited message history, unlimited users, etc. (could start on Slack but migrating will get harder with time).

Some good-looking open-source alternatives:

• Matrix
• Zulip
• Rocket.chat

[ali-ramadhan]

Ended up setting up a Slack workspace since it's so easy and familiar to people. We have 10,000 messages and 5 GB, so if we ever hit that limit then we can look into self-hosting.

http://project-lovelace.slack.com

[ali-ramadhan]

One crappy thing about Slack is that it's invite-only. So to get around this for now, we can link to the invite link in the navbar lol.

[ali-ramadhan]

https://publicslack.com/ is also an option