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cyphar on Feb 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

Because projects don't force you to use OS X or Windows or whatever in order to contact the maintainers. Using Slack exclusively does force people to do that.

omginternets on Feb 3, 2016 [–]

So? If you need to contact the maintainers, you're using Slack already...

This is much ado about nothing.

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