Meta: Chat?

[shockey]

We've talked about this before (@webron), but I'd like to bring it up here: should we open up a public chat channel for the Swagger JavaScript projects?

Slack isn't without its limitations (10k messages), and IRC is (sorry purists) cumbersome for the uninitiated. I've seen Gitter (https://gitter.im/) used a lot with open-source projects - maybe that could be a good fit.

[EWhite613]

Gitter is great and all but it limits everything to one channel, usually get's pretty cluttered if there are separate conversations going on.

Emberjs community Slack has 10,000 + members on it but really it's only ~1,200 weekly active users, with ~500 of those users actually posting. The separate channels allow for focused conversations. It takes about 5-6 days until you can no longer read a message. But you do need a live app to invite people (Example: https://ember-community-slackin.herokuapp.com/)

[shockey]

@EWhite613, I just created a test community on Gitter, looks like they have support for rooms now:

No support for threads, though - so there's still the possibility of a cluttered room.

[webron]

It's unlikely that we'll use gitter, but there are other options I'm exploring.

[raderio]

https://rocket.chat/

[shockey]

Regarding Slack, some observations from an admin of the Ghost (OSS blogging platform) Slack team in light of their decision to shutter their Slack: https://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/980872508395188224

[webron]

Interesting (yet not surprising).

I'd like to consider https://matrix.org/ but... time... 😕