The Haskell slack seems to be working well, so regardless of the suitability of slack to open communities or not, I don't really see the advantage of fragmenting the community even further. Why would someone pick gitter over the two existing platforms that have thousands of users? They would be intentionally limiting the help they can get. On 7 December 2016 at 17:07, Ben Spencer wrote:

Hey Chris,

As I've mentioned Slack isn't a good choice for open communities. It's really designed for businesses.

On Dec 07, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Christopher Allen wrote:

For that, there's http://fpchat.com/ which is an established Slack community. The #haskell channel alone has 1,208 people in it right now.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Tomas Carnecky wrote:

Usability matters. It's easier to tell people to open a browser window and

point them at a URL than tell them to download an IRC chat client and how to

connect to the server and...

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:41 PM William Yager wrote:

What are the advantages of this over the #haskell IRC on freenode? It's

very active, usually with over 1500 nicks at any given time.

I generally prefer IRC to any of these hip web chat solutions because IRC

is client-agnostic and very rugged against companies folding or deciding

they don't want to host a project any more. Basically the only way to kill

an IRC channel is through social attrition, whereas any social value built

up in hosted chat services might disappear overnight.

The one major advantage of hosted chats over IRC is that they work better

with mobile users, but I don't think that's very relevant for haskell dev.

Will

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Ben Spencer

wrote:

Why Gitter you might ask?

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