I now use the same XMPP client to talk to Slack that I previously used with our own local chatrooms hosted on ejabberd.
However, others in my team are very dependent on the part of Slack that is less like XMPP or IRC: the built-in persistence that lets them scroll back or search for stuff that happened while they were away. This is clearly important to some people, who also bodged together persistence for XMPP or IRC using various bots or artfully deployed console clients in screen/tmux sessions on remote servers. I always found it strange, since I expect chat to be ephemeral.
For asynchronous communication, I wish all these folks had learned how to use email or usenet properly, since I think threaded discussion on mailing lists or newsgroups was far superior to what we have now in any of these popular replacements.
I still don't quite understand whether there is a majority opinion that "rooms", "channels", or serialized message boards are somehow a better UX for the average mind, or if it's really just the distortion of rent-seeking businesses always building this form that is easier to control and monetize for some reason.
> I now use the same XMPP client to talk to Slack that I previously used with our own local chatrooms hosted on ejabberd.
Have you had issues with your client taking a long time to negotiate a connection over Slack's XMPP gateway? I had that issue with Thunderbird's chat client and ended up having to switch over to the IRC gateway instead.
However, others in my team are very dependent on the part of Slack that is less like XMPP or IRC: the built-in persistence that lets them scroll back or search for stuff that happened while they were away. This is clearly important to some people, who also bodged together persistence for XMPP or IRC using various bots or artfully deployed console clients in screen/tmux sessions on remote servers. I always found it strange, since I expect chat to be ephemeral.
For asynchronous communication, I wish all these folks had learned how to use email or usenet properly, since I think threaded discussion on mailing lists or newsgroups was far superior to what we have now in any of these popular replacements.
I still don't quite understand whether there is a majority opinion that "rooms", "channels", or serialized message boards are somehow a better UX for the average mind, or if it's really just the distortion of rent-seeking businesses always building this form that is easier to control and monetize for some reason.