If I had my rms beard on, I would say no services we don’t control in the first place. But here we are, already on Slack, so

You should at least leave Slack if anyone still wants to use it.

i don’t like discord

I know there’s been a bit of discussion of this on Slack, but can we get a list of pros and cons?

slack
pros
embedded images and articles
text formatting

cons
payment required?
deletes messages after a while
only one client

discord
pros
file upload (limited to 8MB without paid plan)
voice call
embedded images and articles
keeps all messages
dark theme
all text is searchable

cons
user interface geared towards gaming
only one client
shady privacy policy?

riot.im
pros
free
file upload
voice chat
video call
IRC connection
embedded images and articles
a multitude of clients on each OS
text formatting
dark theme

cons
can’t think of any ATM, there’s probably one or two

it got late while I was drafting this so I probably missed some things. I didn’t include IRC because we’re trying for something that has persistent chatlogs, which all of the mentioned services have. I also came across this which seems fitting for our current situation https://opensource.com/alternatives/slack and it looks like rocket.chat was made specifically to try and have an open source alternative to slack.

Yes, at least keep slack on the list. If nothing else its where the previous players expect it to be. I also strongly prefer slack’s personal messaging system, because it keeps server specific names in the private chat and allows non-admins to create exclusive channels and private messages aimed at groups, and discord does not.

I’ll fix this later.