Comment by novatea

8 months ago

Another Hack Club member here, this situation is hard on many of us since we built many of our projects around Slack integration, and we now have to rapidly re-code them so they don't break. It's not great, especially in the middle of the school week (reminder that hack club is a coding nonprofit for teenagers, so i have to go to school and have homework while doing this)

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hiccuphippo  8 months ago

Another good lesson here: at the end of the day, these are just websites. Don't lose sleep over it. If it's broken for a couple of days, that's ok.

gschizas  8 months ago

I've migrated one of my projects from Slack to Mattermost (integration) in a couple of days.

I have no idea about Zulip, it was harder to setup under pressure than Mattermost was.

lazystar  8 months ago

welcome to hacking, i guess. this is the real working experience that youll need in the industry

  • elnerd  8 months ago

    Getting the rug pulled under you does not qualify as an experience you need. It happens, but should not be in the curriculum for kids.

    I am sure that being forced to spend time on this steals time from more interesting projects.

    • lelanthran  8 months ago

      > Getting the rug pulled under you does not qualify as an experience you need.

      I disagree; this is the best time to unlearn "companies selling proprietary software are our friends"

      Arguably it's a more valuable lesson than any technical lesson: ignoring existing open source projects in favour of proprietary stuff should hurt.

      The more it hurts the better the lesson sticks.

    • fdsfdsfdsaasd  8 months ago

      Skyfall have had awareness of this issue for months. If you're running a teaching service for kids, allowing this to hit the wall months later while telling the kids it's all someone else's fault is disingenuous and a poor example to set.

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