Comment by thinkingemote
3 years ago
Worse are open source communities only using Slack.
As a normal user you cannot search beyond a very small amount of days without paying Slack money.
Slack, often found in American centred projects Vs European in my experience, possibly where the devs already use slack for their paid startup jobs, and where they don't really understand or like libre software as well as the average German developer.
The free version is unfortunately hobbled but slack is a lot better than discord at least at critical things like "getting caught up on messages that were sent since you last read." Some friends and I recently started a discord server for an async D&D game and it's a real pain to get caught up. They have the same red "you were here" line and the same "X new messages" banner as slack, but discord's default scrolling behavior works against you.
I don't know if it's as true these days but in the early days you couldn't get Discord installed on office computers because of the association that it was a "gaming app".