Comments on post “Let's Chat”
Lucas Gordon
@lucasjgordon · UI Engineer, WeSwap
This could be really useful for chat communities after Slackgate yesterday. https://twitter.com/levelsio/sta...
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@lucasjgordon Slackgate? Really? I don't know why Slack would shut off that API, but I'm guessing it was probably to combat abuse/spammy behavior and/or preserve their business model...
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Lucas Gordon
@lucasjgordon · UI Engineer, WeSwap
@chrismessina I totally understand their reasons for making the change, but it did allow the creation of some great communities which may now need to look elsewhere.
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Drew Meyers
@drewmeyers · Co-Founder, Horizon
@chrismessina @lucasjgordon I tend to agree that spam/abuse was probably the issue. I joined several communities on slack, but rarely went back to them. I'm guessing most of those communities weren't strong enough to garner many repeat visitors, but I could be wrong.
Regardless, cool to see an open source version pop up. I'm sure there is a market for self hosted chats where community owners have more control.
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