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18 Post author: Elo 04 September 2015 02:29AM

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Comment author: casebash 04 September 2015 04:12:57AM 3 points [-]

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.

Comment author: drethelin 04 September 2015 07:41:24PM 2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: taygetea 05 September 2015 07:33:04AM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: metaperture 20 October 2015 11:42:28AM 0 points [-]

I haven't tried it, but this looks like it could be useful for that project: https://github.com/evanyeung/terminal-slack