Every once in a while now Slack will pop up an ad when I post a message. FYI, I'm starting to think about quitting this Slack entirely.

Yuck! Can you screenshot these whenever they pop up and send them to me? I need rage bait to motivate me to write a shitty first draft of a thing we could use instead.

I got one as well some time last week. I'll watch out and screenshot the next time.

Here's a copy I saved from a different group, through I wish now you could see how it's just above the input box.

Just had a full-screen modal asking to "unlock AI today"... 😬

Incidentally, I've been using Zulip a lot in a different group and really digging it. In particular, I love, love, love how its threads are loosely typed. All you have is some UI to quote selected text with a URL to it. This provides the flexibility to merge threads. I'm tellin' ya, this is a feature people will still be using in a hundred years, along with hyperlinks, edit history, emoji, reactions and collaborative organization into channels and topics, to mention some recent advances in textual discourse.

merging threads and moving message from one thread into another or even messages as freestanding blocks that can exist in multiple threads is a freedom I've always wanted in a Slack-like thing!

Ooh, backlinks in a rich-text platform outside of mindmapping? I want that

@Arvind Thyagarajan I saw this one too.

got u fam

Nice! I get to heart/puke in the same breath. Rare :-)

If it's any consolation (it isn't), Discord keeps spamming me to buy nitro bits or whatever the fuck

I hate how cluttered discord feels. I'll give zulip a try, thanks for the recommendation @Kartik Agaram!

@Achille Lacoin Wondering what you do to give Zulip a try. I find it hard to evaluate forum software, because you need to see it used by an active community of users, ideally of a size similar to what you want to set up yourself. Zulip is a good example for me. I used it once, as a chat for a three-day online conference during covid lockdowns. That's hardly a typical Zulip experience, with most users being newbies and not investing much effort into learning the platform.

@Konrad Hinsen You can use https://changelog.zulipchat.com/ as an example instance

Thanks @Achille Lacoin, that looks like a good place for exploring Zulip!

I've used Zulip at my previous institution as a TA/admin on a couple of courses, and it was also used for some tech support by IT. For me it was a really positive experience, IMO it's clearly the best Slack-like out there. The biggest downside is that the UI might be confusing.