People talk about Discord on here for chat rooms a lot. Is it open in some way that Slack is not? Looking at their website it seems like it's basically... just Slack.
I've been musing, this morning, about Twitter:Mastodon::Slack:???
@benhamill discord is:
* cheaper (ie, pay per user to unlock some features like global emotes)
* it *is* hosted for you, and closed source, like slack
* discord voice chat sucks several orders of magnitude less than the slack voice chat
* discord has really fine-grained moderation and ACL systems, unlike slack
* discord allows you to just drop an invite link somewhere and have people join your server, unlike slack, where you have to invite people
@er1n Thanks. What's an ACL system?
@benhamill access control lists
an example:
you could create an #announcements channel and a 'moderators' role, and give users with the 'moderators' role r/w to #announcements, and give everyone else read-only
any user can have any combination of roles.
this makes moderation actually... possible? on discord, unlike slack
b/c you can tempmute someone, or voicemute them, or ban them from a specific channel, without actually hardkicking/banning them
@er1n I see. Cool. Thanks.