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Slack channel

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:55 am
by mobyfab
Very good idea for the slack team, you should create one. :)

EDIT: here you are:

HOWTO including link https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi/wiki/HOWTO_join_slack_channel

login https://rusefi.slack.com/

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:34 am
by AndreyB
I guess I am officially old now? How is https://bryanhadaway.com/how-to-create-a-slack-chat-community-with-auto-invites/ the way to share Slack channel? Can someone please explain why is this the way to make a channel public? Why the hassle with "auto-invite" with deploying some random app to some random container?

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:41 am
by AndreyB

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:49 pm
by AndreyB
xtr0d3m0n wrote:@russ the invite is its in the left menu thing...
http://rusefi.com/slack/ is a self-invite thing. Just checked it worked for me.

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 1:19 am
by AndreyB
In the recent month https://rusefi.slack.com/ has really taken off - we are now getting towards 10K messages there.

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 1:40 am
by AndreyB
On the other hand, we will now be loosing history since we are on the Free plan and there is no way on Earth we are paying https://rusefi.slack.com/plans

Also fun dramatic reads
https://dave.cheney.net/2017/04/11/why-slack-is-inappropriate-for-open-source-communications
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013136
https://opensource.com/alternatives/slack

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:20 pm
by AndreyB
Reminder that some cool things are happening on the Slack channel. For example, documentation strategy is being discussed at https://rusefi.slack.com/messages/CF8NQ1RU6/

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 12:45 am
by AndreyB
https://www.irccloud.com/ if we ever get tired of the 10K messages limitation :)

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 12:05 am
by AndreyB
mobyfab wrote:
Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:55 am
Very good idea for the slack team, you should create one. :)
A major issue with Slack is the fact that free accounts are limited to 10,000 messages which means content is automatically purged.

We do not follow the discipline of documenting stuff on the forum, thus we have a ghost town on the forum and no institutional memory whatsoever. Myself I have very poor memory and I need structured notes - thus I need the forum.

I am afraid that we got addicted to Slack and while that amazing tool gave us a lot it has also taken a lot from us.

PS: kind of relevant also https://www.quora.com/Has-social-media-like-Facebook-killed-online-forums

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:17 pm
by mobyfab
There are some good alternatives such as rocket.chat, which can be (free/paid) SaaS or self-hosted.

Data can be imported: https://rocket.chat/docs/administrator-guides/import/slack/

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 4:25 am
by kb1gtt
This needs preservation, it was posted in slack.

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 6:52 pm
by AndreyB
Slack really _really_ REALLY wants some $$$ :(
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Any video we attach to slack is on the one hand not available to see in about 20 days while still going towards out space usage! Thus sometimes we really get the "no more space" message.

Thus I am now manually purging videos using https://slackdeletron.com/ as described by https://www.guidingtech.com/bulk-delete-slack-files-free-space/ now

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 7:01 pm
by deezums
I think it would do everyone some good to just go ahead and completely delete slack now rather than waiting for it do do it on it's own later, or wait for some glorious benefactor...

Or can we code something that pushes every slack message to an archive forum here automatically, so we aren't at least loosing text? Maybe slack archive forum, with subforums for each group?

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 9:14 pm
by AndreyB
Slack free plan gives us limited storage. When we use the storage, no more attachments are possible.

At the moment I am manually using https://slackdeletron.com/ to purge videos since videos are the ones eating slack free plan quote. Please consider using youtube or remove your own videos. Or at least be aware that each attached video is be using https://slackdeletron.com/ more often.

The fact that slack has API tells us that achieve be possible but not something I would have time to look into :(

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:07 am
by cookiesowns
@AndreyB asked me to post here from our slack discussion about alternatives...

I've done some digging, and it's a bummer that once used to be opensource chat software like https://rocket.chat/pricing/?gclid=undefined & https://mattermost.com/pricing-self-managed/ decided to start charging for the features people want..

There is Gitter which is nice, but just not as known. It's also cloud hosted and supposedly "Lifetime archiving" you could also self host it as well.

https://gitter.im/

Then there is discord.. data partially controlled by tencent, however easy to use, can do easy desktop sharing, good chat features, private rooms, etc.

In order of preference personally I'd think about:
  • Staying on Slack, and finding a solution to archive messages
  • Trying out Gitter.im
  • Trying out Discord
  • Trying out Rocket.chat
  • Trying out Mattermost

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:40 pm
by AndreyB
cookiesowns wrote:
Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:07 am
  • Staying on Slack, and finding a solution to archive messages
rusEFI slack is quick and noisy form of communication I am not convinced that it's worth archiving - it would be a nightmare to navigate anyway. For long-term data we have to be using wiki mostly, and some forum.

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:18 am
by AndreyB
AndreyB wrote:
Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:40 pm
rusEFI slack is quick and noisy form of communication I am not convinced that it's worth archiving
See also https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi/wiki/Knowledge-best-practices-and-Channels

Probably an obvious observation but rusEFI Slack has turned into social space of rusEFI in the negative Facebook meaing of the social space - the social live collaboration has replaced documentation and strategic knowledge value add. My personal passion to create a widely used piece of technology and to persist the relevant body of knowledge for wider audience does not align with the loosly structured flow of group chat.

To be honest I would have turned rusEFI slack off if it was not the amazing support tool. In the meantime I plan to no longer monitor Slack like I used to for the last year or so.

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 5:45 pm
by AndreyB
Heroku invite app is no longer with us and hopefully it's not needed anymore, top post edited with new magic link.

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:41 am
by m8r
Might need a new link? Looks like the one in the top post doesn't work?

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:49 am
by AndreyB
m8r wrote:
Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:41 am
Might need a new link? Looks like the one in the top post doesn't work?
update

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 3:36 am
by AndreyB
Want a discord instead? Sure https://discord.gg/rCGAUaZJKF

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 10:52 am
by mi-hol
considering the lack of history in slack and effort to keep slack invite link alive (monthly renewal required) I'd suggest to migrate to discord and close down slack. May I ask for comments?

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 1:31 pm
by AndreyB
mi-hol wrote:
Wed May 31, 2023 10:52 am
I'd suggest ... close down slack.
History does not help much: discord is still inferior to forums that are indexed by search engines.
Slack will stay up for as long as a couple of important contacts are only on Slack.

My issue with both Slack and Discord are exactly the same: it's https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi/wiki/Knowledge-best-practices-and-Channels#q-i-need-help and https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi/wiki/Knowledge-best-practices-and-Channels#q-i-have-exciting-valuable-data-i-really-want-to-dump-it-into-slack-right-now

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:20 pm
by AndreyB
AndreyB wrote:
Wed May 31, 2023 3:36 am
Want a discord instead? Sure https://discord.gg/rCGAUaZJKF
Default links are only valid for 7 days, new link at https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi/wiki/Discord

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 4:17 pm
by andrewfunston
Hello all, I'm interested in exploring and potentially contributing to the codebase, I was going to dig through the slack channel as well, but the magic link mentioned here (https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi/wiki/HOWTO-join-slack-channel) is no longer active.

When I try to directly navigate to the slack channel (https://rusefi.slack.com/) I get a "XXX@gmail.com doesn’t have an account on this workspace."

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 4:53 pm
by AndreyB
There is not much activity on Slack, there was a desire to move to Discord see https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi/wiki/Discord

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 4:54 pm
by AndreyB
PS: myself I am not a huge fan of either, forum and github is my preferred combo.

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 5:28 pm
by andrewfunston
Alrighty, I guess I'll use the forum for now. I'm just starting at digging through the code base. Looks like LCOV could use some exceptions from the generated report to get a more realistic output, I'm having to re-setup my dormant windows box to dig in more closely.

Thanks!
Andy

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 5:31 pm
by AndreyB
andrewfunston wrote:
Tue Aug 01, 2023 5:28 pm
Looks like LCOV could use some exceptions from the generated report to get a more realistic output
https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/OCPD-Fact-Sheet.pdf has some insight on why it's so uncomfortable for me to discuss LCOV on the "Slack channel" topic. Maybe a github ticket with some specifics?

Re: Slack channel

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 5:41 pm
by andrewfunston
I had/have no plans to discuss anything on this specific thread, just looking around and getting comfortable in the code base and it was an "offhanded" comment - I didn't mean anything by it, sorry for the confusion. Will keep the rest of the comments on task, thanks for the help!