Oh I’m sure it’s because of slack pricing, and the CT membership is only $79/year, but it’s still maddening that so much useful stuff is just gone. CT just launched a discourse forum of their own as well, but of course it’s not slack. I’m curious to see what happens with all of it now that Outside owns it all.
He’s local to me, if you are reading bud, sorry, I found his insta feed so grating for some reason, can’t follow
So it makes sense that he started a slack, my absolute least favorite form of internet communication lol
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CMV: Slack is IRC but slower and more expensive.
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Also can’t stand slack. Sigh.
i like slack because custom emoji and the alternative is teams. this is at work. the cool kids use slack, the corporate guys use teams and i’m a corporate guy pretending to be a cool kid. yes i added 
(but didn’t name it that) and 
- one coworker was like
turns out he is/was an SA goon. i was there for the photoshop phriday and was like “dang you got me but i wasn’t that active” and he still wonders why i have water bottles with the bear. some day when we don’t work together he’ll join us here. worthy person but work and tarck…
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At my new work environment people actually manage to use Slack with balance and purpose. I am amazed. Example: someone asked about whether a meeting should go forward and people literally used the green check box emoji to signal that they would attend. I was floored. I’ve never experienced such a thing. My comment above is strictly with regard to social slacks.
why haven’t people all migrated to Discord? better than Slack!
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Oh, we use it to circumvent methods of actually documenting work, which is less than helpful in so many ways. But the custom emoji kick ass
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i know it’s really weird considering how similar slack and discord are, but there’s something about the slack interface that just clicks for me and something about the discord interface that’s nails-on-the-chalkboard in my brain
(probably helps that we don’t use slack at work so i don’t have any work-related PTSD reaction to it, I totally understand why some people just have an immediate revulsion towards slack because of that)
Part of it I think is that every single discord community has decided to follow the anti-pattern of “we need a channel specifically targeted for every single possible topic” instead of defaulting to a “general” channel with breakout channels as needed. So you end up with the same 10 people holding 15 conversations in parallel in different channels and the sidebar lights up with 30 notification blobs the moment you turn your head away.
I read this and immediately did
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Discord’s wacky take on threads has me 
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Msg boards, texts and email. Fight me!!
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no thanks! even if i liked fighting, i agree
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I’m gen z (barely) and i don’t know a single person that uses slack I’m extremely skeptical of some of the info here. I didn’t even know you could use it for something other than work. TBH it feels like everyone my age is into super serious mountain biking, super serious road biking, super casual touring, or niche stuff like fixies and bmx where all you need is a couple friends. I feel like forums and such are really only relevant when you’re tinkering a lot and piecing together weird stuff, whereas people I know just have a modern mountain bike and a modern road bike and that’s that. Don’t know many (other) young people who are into vintage crap, slow bikes, fenders, dynamos, baskets to the degree where they’re constantly tinkering and want to nerd out online. There’s just so few young people in the zone between not being into bikes beyond transport and being really into them as a sport and thus just getting the latest and greatest. Or at least that’s what it feels like.
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EVERY TIME I’ve tried to join a discord I run in to this dumb thing where if you make the mistake of clicking “join” when you aren’t logged in to Discord it then becomes impossible to associate the username you picked with your existing account, and if you log in to DIscord on that browser you might lose the username you claimed.
Like, there’s a FAQ item about this which is massively downvoted because whoever wrote the answer was confused about what the problem is and wrote the answer to an entirely different question, there’s an entire category in the support request form about it so you have to fight your way through like three levels of autoreply, and I’ve never mustered the energy to care.
So I don’t use discord, as a result of which I’m not logged into discord, which means whenever I click an invite link to a discord – and they don’t even bother to prompt you to log in on the invite page – so the cycle repeats again and again.
Anyway the last time I tried I fought through 2/3 levels of autoreply and wrote a long missive about “why can’t you do what literally every ecommerce site does and preserve a user’s shoping cart when they log in” and then the next day I heard that all Discord users had gotten a push poll about fucking NFTs so i never sent it
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Perfect
Get off my digital lawn!!!
I think most of these people are actually 30+ and like to present themselves as younger
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Slack threads suck, just keep all convo in the channel without the threads
Slack channels are fine if they are reasonably discrete
Zoom chat used to be simpler and better but the new sidebar is horrible and sucks
Discord is basically impossible to use
Talking about gravel was way more fun
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True but
I do feel that the old style “message board” (this being a very good implementation shartmo) is sort of for old folks now. Just as zoomers can’t understand hierarchical file organization schemes, they don’t have much interest in message boards.
I don’t necessarily think tarck needs to grow in perpetuity but I have noticed that we don’t seem to draw many younger people. That’s fine, but I always wonder whether that is a content problem or a format problem.
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Jesus Christ why would people want to participate in an endless text scroll with hundreds of other people? How is that even close to a normal, useful conversation?!??!
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