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		thenomad on Feb 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects That's fine unless you're not a developer, don't have a Github account, don't know what it is and don't want one. For any wide-usage FOSS project, that'll describe quite a lot of their users.

Touche on Feb 1, 2016 [–]

How is Slack better? At least with Gitter you just need a GitHub account, with Slack you have to create a new account for every Channel you might want to use.

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