Welcome!

Absolutely needed. DASH Nation Slack RULEZ and is the existential communication channel for us ^^

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Voted yes!

Wonderful. Appreciate it.

The Dash Slack is the one place I find extremely useful to build community - a very big YES from me

Great! It is the premier place to communicate about Dash, and it will only get better.

Voting yes to the requested paid Slack membership and to your proposed salary for the administration and monitoring of it.

Thank you very much for your continued support, friend.

Voting yes, but hoping we can move over to some of the better alternatives eventually :)

Voting yes. I would echo the comments about alternatives to slack for the future tho and maybe split your pay from the slack cost next time around? Don't be shy Tao you have definitely earned that pay I feel.
BTW font size is great for me but I'm half blind ;)

LOL. At least it works for someone! Thanks for supporting our Slack.

As a developer that is on the Dash Nation Slack, there are times when the 10,000 message limit hides information that is useful in previous conversations (private and public). I am in favor of this proposal.

As I said in the proposal writeup, this does become a problem for working groups, as well as people who went away for awhile and would like to catch up. Thanks for illustrating the problem from a users point of view.

Yes for me.

And Tao appears willing to monitor/explore other products if something better and cheaper comes along. Note that Glip is "free" just like Slack is "free". It's the basic only version of Glip that is free. The pro version is ten bucks a user. Slack is eight bucks a user. Here is a very long and very detailed comparison.

https://getvoip.com/blog/2017/01/10/slack-vs-glip/

No, this is not true. The free version of Glip does almost everything the pro version of Slack does. Unlimited messaging is free on Glip, so is unlimited storage. 10 seconds on their webpage confirms this. https://glip.com/pricing

Thank you for that information.

The information is false, I'm very disappointed you didn't spend the time to verify it yourself. I'd be happy to vote to pay you for the time you spend administering the platform. But you do not sound like you have spent any time doing due diligence here, and are being very flippant about wasting money.

I haven't researched it yet. I'm concentrating on giving my users the best experience on the platform that has been successful. I am open to other alternatives in the future.

You keep saying you are open to alternatives, but we're giving you a great free alternative and you're ignoring it. What gives??

I love the slack and Tao should be rewarded for his efforts!
We are getting dozens of new members everyday - the energy in there is awesome and great for networking.
Obvious "Yes" from me.

If I could give you a +1 emoji, I would. Thanks for your vote!

Others are moving from Slack... https://github.com/aragon/governance/issues/7
Maybe, we should move now before getting bigger? 2cents.

This link reads more like a proposal, not all positive. Slack has been providing a great experience for our users, and if upgraded, would have more features needed to create a great meeting place. The extra app integrations alone would help. Thanks for the added info to consider!

Voting Yes but I hope you consider alternatives to Slack.

Have you explored the free and opensource alternatives to slack? There are many slack clones and slack is the most expensive option I know of. If it's truly the best option for the dash community, I don't mind spending the money.

But someone should do the due diligence here, if nothing beats the commerical option, it still seems like there are better options. For instance, Glip.com is a (closed-source) option that does almost everything Slack Pro does better, their free tier has unlimited messaging, they only ask for $ to support video chat, which probably isn't necessary for us.

Thanks for all your effort Tao, so please don't take this the wrong way, voting no for now.

Hm, I'd be interested in looking into Glip, it would be nice to save some treasury funds for some big promotional projects.

No offence. I consider Slack to be the best complete package out there, with stable mobile apps allowing for access to discussions and team work from wherever you are. I would be open to looking at other options in the future should this not be the case anymore.

As with Dash, user experience is my top priority.

Thanks for the feedback!

Glip has an excellent mobile app as well. I have used both professionally and Slack doesn't seem to have any significant advantages. What part of the Glip user experience do you have a problem with?

I think this is wise. Time is critical in this rapid growth phase, so I'd rather risk overpaying short-term to ensure the best experience. You can always migrate later, no big thing to overpay a bit, perhaps. Migrate too early and fail on UX or adoption = fail.

Thank you, sir. If a clearly better user experience presents itself, I would definitely consider it.

How many hours per day average would you say you spent the last 3 months doing "administration, monitoring and community building efforts"?

What does "administration, monitoring and community building efforts" mean? Are you planning on doing something new or just the same as you have been doing?

I ask because 10 Dash is a lot and I see guys on the mod squad (troyDash, Macrochip) putting in a bunch of hours per day and they don't get paid anywhere near that much. I don't think any of the MS members would even accept that much even if i tried to give it to them.

Great question! As I'm sure you are aware, I spend my every free minute building the Dash community. On Slack, I monitor the Slack for violations of policy, deal with the infractors through PM, administer the Slack through announcements and changes to the channel listings, organize and motivate my team in the moderation channel, and plan/enforce new rules as they come up.

I helped to create Dash Nation Slack into what it is today through my examples of professionalism and positivity. As most on the Slack would attest to, our Slack has a different feel from other Slacks, an inviting atmosphere that I had no small hand in creating. I'm really quite proud of it, and i work hard to keep it that way.

But a community communication channel is nothing with a community. I dedicate my every waking hour to promote Dash and invite people to join us on our Slack so they can enjoy the Dash experience.

CATV, and my CashAlternative Twitter account where I devote all my efforts to Dash and drawing people to our Slack through auto-direct messages when they follow me, as well as supporting your Dash Force with devotion, I might add, takes up every ounce of free time I have. No offense to my Mod Squad peeps, but they probably don't work quite as hard as I do.

So, between my inside the Slack and outside the Slack community building efforts, I feel that this stipend is justified. Thank you for giving me this chance to explain that, and I hope I can look forward to your support, as I have supported you. Cheers.

I'll vote yes because we can afford it :) But it would really be nice to get the most out of paying Slack and get some sort of endorsement or a better deal from them.

I agree. It may be worthwhile to open a dialogue with them and do something that would be mutually beneficial. Thanks for the idea! Slack accepting Dash would be nice.

I would really prefer if we could use an open source app instead of Slack. For me, one of the most important aspects of cryptocurrency is that it's open source, and it would be great if we could use open source software for this. Here are some options I found, maybe someone has experience with them and can recommend one of them?

https://about.mattermost.com/
https://about.riot.im/
https://rocket.chat/

Unfortunately, there is no really good replacement of Slack for big communities. Riot doesn't have emojis and Rocket Chat sucks because of bugs.

Glip is an excellent replacement, they are directly competing with Slack, but are mostly free. Please give it a chance before we waste thousands of dollars unnecessarily.

Actually, I'm testing out mattermost with one community since today, will see how it goes.

....then vote

Thank you for providing these alternatives. I feel that Slack offers the best all-round experience at this time.

As others have mentioned (and I have discussed with Tao about this a little as well), I do think we might need to either change some plans, or step up our slack user administration procedures *if* we run into certain issues with this. But without having tried it, we aren't going to know. Tao has been a great ambassador/volunteer for the Dash community for a long time and I trust that he will be able to make the right decisions here. I think it's worth the shot and also to send the message that the Dash community values its contributors and wants them to have the best experience possible. Voting yes

voted yes! the Dash Nation on Slack is very useful to the Dash community and new users

Thank you for your kind words... and your support of our Slack.

Once again, apologize for the font size, I haven't been able to change it. See Dash Forum for a more readable experience. A million thanks for your support so far! :-)

true Yes for this one

Love the conversation on Dash Nation and your support of it. Yes!

Cheers, friend. I'm glad you like it, and it will only get better.

Apologize for the large font. If someone knows how I can change it, I'm all ears.

In the edit dialog the is a font size icon, it might also be an unclosed header tag in the source you copied it from.

Can you do something about the font size? The letters are huge.

I've tried all I could think of. For a better experience, try reading it on Dash Forum. Cheers!

you have to delete everything and save the blank page. then go back and copy and paste and select all and use a smaller font. it is a pita and even doing all that i can't guarantee it will work and not cause other formatting errors. i will probably just use the official forum from now on. i have spent many hours the last several months just trying to get fonts and everything to format correctly on here.

It shouuld not be that difficult.

An easy yes vote! Done! Thanks Tao!

Thanks a million. I know that you have enjoyed your time there, and we have had many conversation in private and in public. It would be nice to keep that history.