Stimhack Slack Chat Channel

dodgepong · September 21, 2015, 3:13pm

Just to make this easy:

→ Request an invite here ←

(if this link is down, wait a few hours and try again)

I know a lot of Stimhackers have jumped in with the Skype chat group, and that is all well and good. However, personally, I hate Skype as a program, and as a medium for chatting as a group. You can’t effectively idle in the group chat because the channel doesn’t auto-scroll if there are too many unread messages (10-15 or so, and the group easily pushes 50 messages an hour). Skype is also notorious for its insecurity, revealing IP addresses and such.

Instead, I propose we use a Slack channel.

##What is Slack?

It’s a modern chat room system for the modern world. It works in the browser, has really nice mobile apps, lets you PM/highlight people, customize your notifications, allows for multiple chat rooms & group chats, and has very nice phone apps. And did I mention…

The Slack channel is at http://stimhack.slack.com.

But what about voice chat?

Good news! I set up a Discord server for voice chat as well! Click here to join the Discord server!

eric_c · September 21, 2015, 3:43pm

highly recommend Slack for netrunner chat. i joined a semi-private one a while back, and the features you can set up for it are great!

we set ours up to alert us to new podcast episodes:

do custom emojis:

and we have a bot that spits out card details:

emoji reactions are also fun, and someone made this video pop up whenever anyone mentions cyberspace

Ajar · September 21, 2015, 4:06pm

I have to say, this has a lot of appeal. Skype chat has a lot of problems. I’ll sign up.

ItJustGotRielle · September 21, 2015, 4:15pm

I’m in, I tether for internet and Skype is not a fan of that. PM sent.

dodgepong · September 21, 2015, 4:20pm

I believe I have sent invites to everyone who has requested one so far. You can now automatically request an invite here: https://stimhackslackinvite.herokuapp.com/

crfluency · September 21, 2015, 4:23pm

Joined! It’s great! love it!

camelCase · September 21, 2015, 4:33pm

Come on guys, if we really wanted some hacker cred someone needs to set up an IRC server.

dodgepong · September 21, 2015, 4:35pm

I did consider an IRC channel, and I still use IRC on a daily basis…for what it’s worth, you can connect to Slack via IRC!

elstob · September 21, 2015, 4:51pm

Yes please!

dodgepong · September 21, 2015, 5:40pm

Very cool features! I added the Stimhack.com article feed and The Winning Agenda feed, and I was planning on making the other symbol emojis eventually. The bot is pretty cool, too!

If anyone else has any suggestions for feeds or other features, let me know!

Humanoids · September 21, 2015, 6:11pm

I really like how you posted this on THE SINGLE DAY that Skype has had a Worldwide Shutdown… Now I can’t chat on Skype and see the appeal of a second chat I wish I understood enough computer stuff to set everything up, though >.<