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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: Clarity 07 September 2015 01:30:19PM 0 points [-]

Can participants make their own channels?

Comment author: casebash 08 September 2015 01:27:40PM 0 points [-]

Yes, but please mention your intent first so they we can tell you if there's already an existing channel that meets that need

Comment author: drethelin 21 September 2015 07:20:49PM 0 points [-]

Is that really necessary? Slack displays all the non-private channels in the sidebar

Comment author: casebash 25 September 2015 03:53:08AM 0 points [-]

Sometimes we might want to make a more general channel instead.

Comment author: Clarity 12 September 2015 06:27:32AM 0 points [-]

Great. That sounds like a robust and useful system for the time being.