We’ve been trying Basecamp again for Micro.blog planning and documents. So far so good. I was a big fan of Basecamp in the early years, and really admire how they’ve managed to improve it without adding clutter.
We’ve been trying Basecamp again for Micro.blog planning and documents. So far so good. I was a big fan of Basecamp in the early years, and really admire how they’ve managed to improve it without adding clutter.
@manton Awesome! I've been using Basecamp Personal for my businesses and while it's just me for both, it's given me a place to "think out loud" and write comments to myself which is a great way, should I forget, to go back and see why I decided to do one thing or another.
Curious if you think Basecamp might be interesting for the community here as well? I hop into the Slack once in a while but on the whole I find Slack very ovewhelming and hard to follow. That said, I don't work in any field that requires me to use it much, so I'm not exactly an ace at it. (The bias then, is that I find Basecamp so far to be a lot easier to navigate, especially from the sheer dearth of visual noise compared to Slack.)
@philly We've been thinking for a while about moving away from Slack. I love Slack, but it's not a perfect fit for helping customers because we don't have full search history. Discourse is another option for public forums.
@manton I'm a huge Discourse fan and would be a massive advocate of it if you were looking to go in that direction.
@manton I believe both Mac Power Users and Mac Geek Gab are using Discourse with good success.
@manton Switched to it for TIL and immediately became less stressed. Find it a lot easier to build ideas, and especially an accurate schedule.
@Manton Also, lately I’ve been rediscovering the awesomeness of email. How about a mailing list?
@MitchWagner The nice thing about Discourse is I'm pretty sure we can extend it to allow signing in with Micro.blog accounts. I'd want to test a few things before deciding, though.
@manton That's definitely possible! Happy to help with that, it should be a pretty minor change to your IndieAuth provider code.
@aaronpk Thanks! That's what I was hoping. Hopefully I can set aside some time to work on it soon-ish.
@manton we use the free edition of Basecamp to manage our family. I like it but wish they’d offer a mid-tier paid option. I’d snap it up.
@manton That would be lovely. I haven’t checked the Slack channel just because ... well, I don’t know why.
Why not have the discussion hosted on micro.blog? I’m not sure how that would work — micro.blog isn’t configured for multiple channels. And that may be the answer to my own question.
@flowinho Slack charges per user and we have a lot of people who have joined our Slack, so it would cost thousands of dollars per month. Not really suited to how we use it.