Diversity is good - General

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fotonmoton

Yet another chat service. Yeeeeeee:sunglasses:

TheMatten

This one is different though :stuck_out_tongue_wink:

TheMatten

JK, we have message history here compared to Slack :slight_smile:

fotonmoton

I hope so :) If you want all FP related talks to be only in this chat your only option is to close all others :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Otherwise we should create aggregator like reddit but for chats:upside_down:

fotonmoton

Yeah, Slack monetization model sucks. Sell to YOU YOURS history! This is insane, I think

Sridhar Ratnakumar

So we now have IRC, Slack and Zulip. I think diversity is good. Each channel has its own flavour of FP programmers hanging out. For example, Cale hangs out only in #haskell channel in IRC.

Sridhar Ratnakumar

Actually there is also keybase chat group: https://keybase.io/team/haskellers

Haskellers of this world united
toxicafunk

you're forgetting Discord
which we also have

toxicafunk

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Sridhar Ratnakumar

But I really hope that folks at Slack gradually migrate over. The loss of conversation history is an annoying problem. Slack was created for enterprises, not open source communities.

fotonmoton

Nuff said :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

TheMatten

@Sridhar Ratnakumar Absolutely - I was bitten by this multiple times and don't want to be anymore

TheMatten

@fotonmoton Discord, Gitter and Telegram are really about quick Q&A - we don't have any thread/topic-like functionality here

fotonmoton

I also think diversity is good, and I can manage few chat apps but slack is straight bad with it history about history :grimacing:

TheMatten

And if you really don't want to use one more mobile app, Zulip works in mobile browsers too, which is pretty cool

toxicafunk

I use Rambox to keep all under 1 window

toxicafunk

I know people have adverity to change but some concerns presented against zulip are.... unfathomable

fotonmoton

@TheMatten agree about telegram and gitter, they more like irc. Discord also has functionality for dividing conversations, not threads like zulip but nevertheless

TheMatten

@fotonmoton It's channels are equivalent to streams here - topics here add one more layer of "division" that's useful for concrete discussions

fotonmoton

@TheMatten never feel uncomfortable without topics inside channels, but maybe will help someone not to loose thread of discussion

TheMatten

In Discord, it's very hard for me to catch up with conversation that happened while I was offline - there's a lot of comments in every channel discussing bunch of things at the same time, so I usually just give up
With interface that separates different topics, I can read through those that I'm interested in and ignore the others

fotonmoton

Hm. I think zulip is like real time forum. At least this is interesting idea. If you then could extract useful messages into another topic/channel/docs it can be handy information preserving tool!

fotonmoton

Real question is "should there be Random stream with 'more random' and 'less random' topics":thinking:

TheMatten

Do you ever send emails to your boss with subject "Random"? :smiley:
Random topics created here are equivalent to situations when you put no subject line into your email, simply because you don't expect any big conversation to come out of it

Cyril Valyavin

Zulip looks great! I just wish it had an actual native desktop client like Telegram

TheMatten

That one's pretty cool, though I actually ended up using it's web version anyway - one less app to install on my computer

Vance Palacio

I really like telegram. To me, it's more akin to a replacement for text messaging though