TLDR Slack has become a swamp of casual topics that don't belong in Slack, but rather in discord. We should treat Slack as a platform only for development related topics. That will increase our productivity by being able to focus on real issues or questions from beginners for example. The Problem Our slack was originally, and still is, meant for bot authors or other involved developers to discuss bot or client related matters, maybe even off-topic development talk. Now we have 800 members in the slack, while easily the half of the remaining, halfway active ~100 users are actually only in for small talk and memes. Of course by now the slack community has fairly grown together and we all appreciate the family feeling, but it's not what Slack is meant to be. It's problematic because with so many casual discussions, very few actually important discussions can survive in the huge swamp of messages. Opening slack channels in the morning being confronted with hundreds of messages really is not motivating to lookout for important matters, you actually tend to just not read any messages at all instead. The separation between multiple casual channels inside the slack is simply not enough to effectively solve this problem. Solution That's why I'd like to propose offloading all casual discussions to either the forums, or, preferably, to our Discord, which has similar functionality, but is actually meant and laid out for people to just chill and talk (literally). Pros: Not a lot of work, may just need a bit of concentrated moderation in the first few days Will populate our Discord, encouraging people to hang out in voice chats more often (proven to be funny as fuck) Regain focus on important discussions or new questions by beginners Good for developers' mentalities Can be done by us, doesn't require any maintenance by our executives Cons: Must be done by us, everyone needs to follow in order for this to work
I believe that the #development channel should be much more strictly development focused, and moderated similarly to the #changelogs channel. It's not currently a place strictly for development discussion and help as it should be; it's regularly flooded with other types of conversation. I don't think that the slack platform needs to be made only development related for this to happen, but it would probably make the process faster. If this is the approach used, more discord text channels would be needed to allow for some level of replication of the functionality slack currently provides with specific channels for various topics.
Jesus christ I can’t imagine a life where I’d have to get on discord to shitpost, life is easier in #general. I don’t really see the issue as long as shitposts stay outside of #development
I'd also like to post that I think it's silly to use two different applications for chat at all, even though I think many will disagree
I greatly dislike discord, so even for that I'd say no. I mean, it's not like #development is that toxic...
Well yeah thats about the only channel thats somewhat moderated and most of the times used for development topics.
