Question: Are any of you guys on Slack?

[gerryvz]

Anyone on the forum use Slack? I'm thinking of creating a Slack channel for the forum, just wondering if anyone uses it.

For those who are saying :

Slack (software) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Cheers,
Gerry

 

[Glen]

I use it at work. Personally, I have to use so many information sources as it is that I probably wouldn’t join a 500eboard Slack channel unless there was a compelling reason to do so.

 

[LWB250]

I use it at work and for some industry certification groups. I don't care for it, as it's just noise after a while and/or information overload.

I wouldn't use it as it just adds another thing I have to check occasionally. I'm with Glen on this one.

And gsxr couldn't use it since I don't think it would run on Netscape Navigator anyway.

Dan

 

[nocfn]

OMG@Dan whipping out the telephone pole for a GSXR

 

[gerryvz]

Netscape Navigator? Dave told me he’s an NCSA Mosaic guy.

But I DID catch this on my last visit to his shop.....

 

[gsxr]

I miss Netscape. And AltaVista...

*sniff*

 

[gerryvz]

I may do a Slack channel to give me alerts when something is wrong with the system (for example if a server error happens).

 

[LWB250]

Netscape Navigator? Dave told me he’s an NCSA Mosaic guy.

But I DID catch this on my last visit to his shop.....

Hmm. I could have swore I saw a picture of his desktop recently, and it looked like this:



(That's the ill-fated Microsoft "Bob" for those who might not recognize it.)

And I could see the value in a Slack channel for system alerts. But to set one up for the forum members would just sort of dilute the forum, I would think.

Dan

 

[gerryvz]

That was my original intent, but if I set up a channel, then others could subscribe if they wanted to. I didn't mean to say that I wanted to set up a Slack channel so folks could chit-chat. There are enough "chat board" and "mini-chat" add-ons that I could do that in about 5 minutes here on the forum. No thanks.

We use Slack at work and I get a message 15 minutes before every meeting starts, as I have it integrated with my calendar to give me alerts. Used to get a text message, but when the company switched to Slack then changed the SMS notification to Slack. Which is fine with me.

 

[Jlaa]

I use slack for work, for my other business, for some hobbies, and for local political election campaigns as well.

 

[vatc5637]

I use Slack for work as well.