tl;dr – I created a slack group, you can get an invite here.

I know we all dearly love our IRC channels; it’s our history, our culture, our misteps and foibles immortalized forever on codedojo … wait… where did the quotes on Seth’s site go?

Anyway – IRC is oh so old, and I’m sure a lot of people will be annoyed at me for saying, not good enough any longer. This is why I created a Ludum Dare Slack!

I know! I know! I’m a luddite too, I use vim, I occasionally use mutt, I like old. But, I also like new shiny features: inline images, GIFS(!), code syntax highlighting, mobile clients, offline messages, pinned notifications, embedded YT videos and tweets, a friendly API, and other such wonders.

We’re a visual community, we need visual communication

Because we do still love IRC, I’ve even created a special #irc channel on Slack that echoes everything said in IRC to slack, so you’ll never miss a beat. It doesn’t message back to IRC yet (I didn’t want to piss anyone off in IRC) but it’s pretty easy to get that set up if we ever wanted it.

Feel free to sign up!

Chat here: http://ludumdare.slack.com
Get an invite here: http://ld-slack.herokuapp.com

P.S. @Mike, I’m happy to hand over ownership/control to yourself or any other LD trustee at your request of course. Just trying to help the community out!

P.P.S For the paranoid, the invite system does not do anything with your email address other than send you an invite to slack, this seems to be the only good (non-manual) way to do it. Code for the inviter is available here for the still-paranoid

– Grieve