MetaFilter on Gitter?

August 31, 2016 4:04 PM

According to Social Explorer, there are 230 Mefites on GitHub and thousands more on Twitter. While MetaFilter Chat is a great institution, I’m curious if folks would be interested in having a chat community on Gitter as well - it’s a sort-of-Slack that uses Github and Twitter credentials for validation. (This is quite definitely fixing a problem that doesn’t exist, but sometimes asking about those is a way to find out that they do.)
posted by Going To Maine to MetaFilter-Related at 4:04 PM (13 comments total)

It seems that some problems that don’t exist just don’t exist.
posted by Going To Maine at 6:11 PM on August 31, 2016 [2 favorites]

I'd be much more inclined to sign into/monitor an actual Slack team for metafilter than Gitter (since I'm running/joined to a bunch of slack teams already), but if there's sufficient interest from others in Gitter, I'm game.
posted by namewithoutwords at 7:49 PM on August 31, 2016 [3 favorites]

While we're throwing out trendy web whatever-point-oh reinventions of the chatroom, let's put Discord out there too.
posted by Pyry at 1:00 AM on September 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

231
posted by sammyo at 8:19 AM on September 1, 2016

If everyone starts chatting on slack (is that called 'slacking off'?) who will have time to push the database limits on the next huge political thread?
posted by sammyo at 8:22 AM on September 1, 2016

I was way more excited about this before I realized that I misread the title and it was not about MetaFilter on Glitter. I had no idea what being "on glitter" could mean but it sure sounded exciting! And then the soul-crushing disappointment as I figured it out.
posted by Jacqueline at 9:05 AM on September 1, 2016 [19 favorites]

I think it'd be great if we could get a Diaspora group going.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 1:20 PM on September 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

2nding Discord. It's great for any multiplayer gaming chats. My friends and I use it instead of Steam because Steam chat functionality is really crap.
posted by Fizz at 4:46 PM on September 1, 2016

Is this something for which I'd have to Learn To Code?
posted by drjimmy11 at 12:41 AM on September 2, 2016

Yes but you should.
posted by sammyo at 6:33 AM on September 2, 2016

can Matt get us a special Slack ?
posted by atoxyl at 11:31 PM on September 3, 2016 [3 favorites]

Thanks for the reminder. 238 now.
posted by blue_beetle at 12:45 PM on September 6, 2016

Is this something for which I would have to have the extra time to be sucked ? 'Cause my timesucks already are all lined up like marching ranks of anorexic bedbugs as it is...
posted by y2karl at 2:58 PM on September 6, 2016