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Closing the microblogging Slack
manton.micro.blog
It is not sustainable for me to work on new Micro.blog features at the current pace as well as be responsive in Slack. If someone has a question about Micro.blog, I want to point them to the best place to get a thorough answer, and that’s email.
Slack also has a couple problems:
- It’s a proprietary platform that doesn’t fit well with our goals for Micro.blog. For example, you can’t have your own domain name for Slack, which makes migrating away very difficult.
- Because the search is limited to only recent messages, it is less useful as a resource to new members.
Totally agree with this. Manton has been great on support, but I wondered if it was sustainable. And more importantly, I very much agree with the openness argument.