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Spectrum.chat as an alternative for slack
Hello everyone,
I currently discovered spectrum as a perfect community chat alternative for slack.
There is already a Elixir group which can be found here: https://spectrum.chat/elixir
Here (https://blog.apollographql.com/goodbye-slack-hello-spectrum-8fa6b979645b) is a nice article about the Apollo GraphQL community which fully switched from slack to spectrum.
Basically because of these main reasons:
- Short-lived channel history
- Walled garden (Slack messages are never available outside of Slack)
- Problematic searching
I myself have experienced these problems with Slack and I really think spectrum is a nice approach of solving these problem. Hoping to see more of you on the spectrum elixir chat in the near future.
Greetings,
Felix
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njwest
The Elixir community is active on Discord 
Nicd
What I’m wondering is:
- Who runs Spectrum? Apparently GitHub? This was surprisingly difficult to find.
- How are they making money? Will they monetise us?
- Can we trust it will stay online and not have all the history be lost when they decide it wasn’t worth it?
It’s switching from one garden to the other. But I do agree Slack’s short channel history and closedness is not good for open communities. Something visible to search engines would be much better.
I think the biggest problem is network effect, though. A lot of people use Slack at work or for other projects already, and don’t want to switch to other systems. It’s good enough, even though it’s bad. So unless there is an official push from the Elixir core team, I don’t think a switch will happen. More likely is that it will just stay as an alternative.
I will check out Spectrum though.
Phillipp
Since I am banned from the Elixir Slack, I might join the Spectrum one. But tbh, I don’t miss the real time chat that much. If I have a problem, I just post it here in the forum and usually get a much faster reply than in Slack.
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