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TLDR
Slack has become a swamp of casual topics that don't belong in Slack, but rather in discord.
We should treat Slack as a platform only for development related topics.
That will increase our productivity by being able to focus on real issues or questions from beginners for example.
The Problem
Our slack was originally, and still is, meant for bot authors or other involved developers to discuss bot or client related matters, maybe even off-topic development talk.
Now we have 800 members in the slack, while easily the half of the remaining, halfway active ~100 users are actually only in for small talk and memes.
Of course by now the slack community has fairly grown together and we all appreciate the family feeling, but it's not what Slack is meant to be.
It's problematic because with so many casual discussions, very few actually important discussions can survive in the huge swamp of messages.
Opening slack channels in the morning being confronted with hundreds of messages really is not motivating to lookout for important matters, you actually tend to just not read any messages at all instead.
The separation between multiple casual channels inside the slack is simply not enough to effectively solve this problem.
Solution
That's why I'd like to propose offloading all casual discussions to either the forums, or, preferably, to our Discord, which has similar functionality, but is actually meant and laid out for people to just chill and talk (literally).
Pros:
Slack has become a swamp of casual topics that don't belong in Slack, but rather in discord.
We should treat Slack as a platform only for development related topics.
That will increase our productivity by being able to focus on real issues or questions from beginners for example.
The Problem
Our slack was originally, and still is, meant for bot authors or other involved developers to discuss bot or client related matters, maybe even off-topic development talk.
Now we have 800 members in the slack, while easily the half of the remaining, halfway active ~100 users are actually only in for small talk and memes.
Of course by now the slack community has fairly grown together and we all appreciate the family feeling, but it's not what Slack is meant to be.
It's problematic because with so many casual discussions, very few actually important discussions can survive in the huge swamp of messages.
Opening slack channels in the morning being confronted with hundreds of messages really is not motivating to lookout for important matters, you actually tend to just not read any messages at all instead.
The separation between multiple casual channels inside the slack is simply not enough to effectively solve this problem.
Solution
That's why I'd like to propose offloading all casual discussions to either the forums, or, preferably, to our Discord, which has similar functionality, but is actually meant and laid out for people to just chill and talk (literally).
Pros:
- Not a lot of work, may just need a bit of concentrated moderation in the first few days
- Will populate our Discord, encouraging people to hang out in voice chats more often (proven to be funny as fuck)
- Regain focus on important discussions or new questions by beginners
- Good for developers' mentalities
- Can be done by us, doesn't require any maintenance by our executives
- Must be done by us, everyone needs to follow in order for this to work
