Re: [111attendees] So, what are jabber scribes actually doing, these days?

["Carlos M. Martinez" <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

On 28 Jul 2021, at 14:12, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote:

> I wonder if the people I've talked to who are reluctant to install a 
> jabber client, or forbidden by their IT people from installing a 
> jabber client, would have the same problem with downloading the Slack 
> client. I have very little experience with the Slack web interface, 
> but wonder if it would be usable enough for us to point people toward 
> it. 

Slack's web interface is perfectly usable and fully featured. In fact 
the Slack "app" is nothing more than the web interface bottled inside 
this scourge of the Earth called Electron.

For those who don't know me, I work for LACNIC. As a data point, for 
those interested, I've run a 1500 member Slack workspace for LACNIC 34 
with little or no issues. I only had to kick out a couple of misbehaving 
participants.

I did the same thing for LACNIC 35 using Discord and the experience in 
general was much better. We are sticking to Discord for LACNIC 36. Not 
only it is actually free (we only paid 100 usd for a bot that adds some 
controls and some integrations) but the features are actually more 
geared to a conference or informal gathering and feels less "corporate" 
than Slack.

Nothing wrong with Slack, we actually de-commissioned our Jabber server 
2 years ago and moved the staff to Slack, but my recommendation for a 
conference is Discord.

regards

Carlos