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Slack is a proprietary web service with tons of nonfree JS, that also requires an account. IRC allows flexible authentication (such as: allow anyone to talk, allow only registered people to talk, or allow only registered people to enter the channel), and demands much fewer resources. Freenode is free to use and there already is a #rosettacode channel. Why not use Freenode IRC?
[[User:Danuker|Danuker]] ([[User talk:Danuker|talk]]) 14:05, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
: Several reasons. First, I have a pretty strong personal dislike of Freenode at this point. I have been unable to reclaim ownership of either my username or rosetta code's existing IRC channel on IRC after multiple attempts over fifteen years and nearly a third of my life on earth, and it's just not worth the hassle. I gave Freenode most of fifteen years to start acting like a professionally-managed service. They don't wish to. That's their business. Second, IRC is a terrible protocol. This is reflected in third, the larger technology community has settled on Slack; it Just Works Better. Fourth, there are decent alternatives like Mattermost, but I'm not going to pay to host a Mattermost server, and paying someone else to do so brings us back to the problem of creating an account on a third-party service. If you're concerned about privacy with Slack, you've presumably worked out how to solve that problem with email. Create an email account somewhere exclusively for your Slack account as it relates to Rosetta Code. That's 100% acceptable, and nobody will get on your case about it, least of all me. Some people are already doing that. If you don't want to use Slack's proprietary clients, download the Mattermost client; it can talk with Slack's servers, and should be FLOSS enough for your needs. Finally, in most of fifteen years of having an IRC channel, the channel never had more than ten people. Currently, it has 223 people, and is adding around five a day. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] ([[User talk:Short Circuit|talk]]) 15:49, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
==Possible synergy==
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