[OOTB-hive] New communication platform for our community?

[briank at glmotorsports.net]

I find the mailing list basically functional, but since I don't normally check e-mail all that often I fall behind.  It's becoming less and less of a useful channel these days, especially amongst the up and coming generation.  Our young interns coming in just aren't used to using e-mail at all (slack is all they know).  I'm making a special point to open an e-mail client to keep up to date on this discussion.  :-)
 
IRC is getting old and clunky.  It's still getting the job done so far, and is in many ways the best channel we have, but I sure wouldn't mind something newer and more reliable (my IRC sessions like to close frequently, it's hard to keep them open).
 
We may not decide on any changes at this time, but I think it's wise to start looking.
 
--Brian
 
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I guess you misread the info. The word New is meant to replace our current communication platform and at this moment it's IRC (and partly mailinglist).
 IRC is ancient and probably started up before I was even born :P.
 
 So there is no harm in every now and than stand still if the used platform is actual and maybe can be replaced by something even better.
 
 Then again I'm opting for this cause in my opinion there is something newer and better :).
 And maybe after a year when another "thing" comes online and it's even better than what we've been using then I'll opt for that.
 
 I thought others were using it as well and if the others would back me up it would have chance.
 I don't want to start on a issues debate on IRC vs Slack or anything else, in my opinion IRC lacks a lot of features other applications had 10 years ago.
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