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Having participated on this chat, one of the key advantages of it compared to the IRC is that there are multiple channels. So if I want to talk about Human Relationships and Eliot wants to talk about Lifehacks our conversations don't interfere with each other.
This also greatly increases the signal to noise ratio. If a channel is uninteresting to you, then you don't need to follow it.
IRC has this function also, but the affordances for using it are not as good. I think Slack is an upgrade to the IRC interface on almost every axis.
There's been quite a bit of talk about partitioning channels. And the #lesswrong sidechannels sort of handle it. But it's nowhere near as good. I'm starting to have ideas for a Slack-style interface in a terminal... but that would be a large project I don't have time for.
I haven't tried it, but this looks like it could be useful for that project: https://github.com/evanyeung/terminal-slack
Can participants make their own channels?
Yes, but please mention your intent first so they we can tell you if there's already an existing channel that meets that need
Is that really necessary? Slack displays all the non-private channels in the sidebar
Sometimes we might want to make a more general channel instead.
Great. That sounds like a robust and useful system for the time being.