Slack Community

[ghost]

Feature Request

Please create a Slack Community. Would love to join in this wonderful community.

Best Regards Andrew

[leastbad]

Hey Andrew, that's actually a really good idea. We'd love to be able to help people get started with as little friction as possible.

In the meantime, how are you making out with your first StimulusReflex experiments? Anything you got stuck on, or need help with? Anything we could be doing better?

Curious, too, how you found out about the project.

[ghost]

Hey @leastbad, thank you for the fast response.

I heard about StimulusReflex from the Stimulus Discourse forum, I think around 2 months ago.

I didn't used StimulusReflex until now, but I'm planning to start using it. :)

I will go through the documentation and the expo examples and will try to use it by the end of the week.

Best Andrew

[hopsoft]

We really want to get this setup. We've been discussing options for our community home. We're currently considering the following options (in no particular order). Would love to hear people's preferences.

• Gitter
• Slack
• Discord
• Discourse

[ghost]

Personally I would vote for Slack or Discord. Would love to hear other people's preferences as well.

[leastbad]

I’ve used Slack extensively, and like Discourse very much as well.

Here’s my biases: as someone truly prepared to personally roll up my sleeves and help a huge number of people, I am genuinely worried that Slack is massively distracting and really kind of terrible at preserving the sorts of wisdom that devs go searching for when they have problems.

Slack conversations are conversations and can get off course. People tend to keep forum threads a bit more on topic.

I also feel like there’s a lower cognitive barrier to searching or posting on a forum than there is to adding a Slack team to your profile.

[julianrubisch]

Slack and Discourse are my favorites, too.

I've got some issues at the moment that don't belong in the issue tracker, so I'd really like to see that set up 👍

[leastbad]

Worth revisiting: https://drewdevault.com/2015/11/01/Please-stop-using-slack.html

FWIW, I was a teenage IRC addict so perhaps that's why I recognize the importance of focus. Continuous partial attention is cancer to high-quality output.

[andrewmcodes]

@darkrubyist @julianrubisch @leastbad

We created a discord and are also working on setting up discourse.

discord link

[hopsoft]

I agree with @leastbad that async longer form communication is preferable (i.e. Discourse); however, there are times when a quick chat with someone can quickly resolve a problem. The plan is to support both async and sync communication options. We're kicking the tires on Discord for sync and I'll be setting up Discourse for async this weekend sometime.

[ghost]

Yes, I agree with both of you. The benefit of using Discord is that is easier to resolve a problem with a real time chat. The benefit of Discourse is the SEO. Everything will be indexed in Google and Stimulus Reflex will have more exposure to the world.

Maybe we can add some badges on the Readme to let people know about Discord and Discourse.

[julianrubisch]

Thank you everyone! This is great news!

Also, should we somehow include that in the code of conduct?

[hopsoft]

I love the idea of making the code of conduct explicit in each of these communication channels. @andrewmcodes will you help look into what might be required for that?

I have applied for the free hosting that Discourse offers to qualifying open source projects and hope to have an answer from them in about 2 days. See: https://free.discourse.group

[hopsoft]

We've been approved by Discourse. The community forum is hosted at: https://stimulus-reflex.discourse.group

Note that I may move us to Gitter for the chat given that it removes some of the friction for signing up and participating. i.e. Allows SSO with GitHub etc...