Consider gitter.im over Slack?

[mholt]

Just a thought - but since Slack has kind of an awkward invite-only system, it has a pretty high barrier to entry. I found gitter pretty easy to join, since I think it just uses a GitHub login which most everyone here has anyway - no invites needed.

[dmitshur]

I have not tried Gitter yet. I think Slack is absolutely excellent, the best I've used, in every way except two: the invite system (worse than IRC) and that it's closed source (worse than IRC & open source server & client).

It seems Gitter is better than Slack on the invite front. If it's as good in every other way, I would consider it seriously.

Thoughts from people who have tried both would be helpful here. Btw, you're talking about the Gopher slack, right?

[mholt]

Yeah, I'm referring to the link on the readme pointing to a fairly idle channel in Slack.

I likewise welcome opinions from anyone who is familiar with both Slack and gitter.

[bwmarrin]

Another option is Discord which allows very easy invites and is a rather nice chat environment :) I was curious where it stood compared to Gitter and found the below issue, which may be useful information here.

reactiflux/volunteers#25

[avelino]

+1 gitter

[matrixik]

Looks like gitter is in README now. Can be closed?

[matrixik]

No response, no objections. Closing.