Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks
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https://www.technibble.com/forums/
It's more focussed towards IT business owners, (though most businesses there aren't running huge operations, a lot of one-man shows) and they'll boot anyone who isn't at least a tech. It's a pretty close knit community, with people often going the extra mile to help a fellow member out.
I'd say it's a very different community than Spiceworks. Expertise level is lower in some areas, but in other areas there some very different discussions going on. It can be a refreshing breaking from all the reoccurring posts about the same thing happening over and over that you see on Spiceworks. A decent amount of data recovery experts on there too that are always willing to give some good insight.
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@flaxking said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
It can be a refreshing breaking from all the reoccurring posts about the same thing happening over and over that you see on Spiceworks.
That's one of teh biggest pain points there. It's all just five questions rehashed every day. Posters acting like no one has talked about this before, and responders sick to death of people that have done zero research and never read anything.
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If I don't find it here Google is my friend.
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@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Slack?
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@flaxking said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
A decent amount of data recovery experts on there too that are always willing to give some good insight.
Sounds like a group that needs some backup providers to jump in there.
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@scotth said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Slack?
Super expensive (or crazy limited) instant messaging platform for internal users. It's like Rocket or Mattermost but only hosted and too expensive for any real use.
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@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scotth said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Slack?
Super expensive (or crazy limited) instant messaging platform for internal users. It's like Rocket or Mattermost but only hosted and too expensive for any real use.
yet tons of companies are using it. Sure perhaps not as many that you have heard of...
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@dashrender said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scotth said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Slack?
Super expensive (or crazy limited) instant messaging platform for internal users. It's like Rocket or Mattermost but only hosted and too expensive for any real use.
yet tons of companies are using it. Sure perhaps not as many that you have heard of...
Because companies primarily focus on marketing.
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@scottalanmiller This is very much a pet peeve of mine w/Spiceworks. If you've not spent all of 5 minutes researching an issue I'm not helping you. Also if you can't articulate what you're actually needing help with I'm not wasting 30 minutes of posting to get clarification in order to assist you.
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@r3dpand4 said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller This is very much a pet peeve of mine w/Spiceworks. If you've not spent all of 5 minutes researching an issue I'm not helping you. Also if you can't articulate what you're actually needing help with I'm not wasting 30 minutes of posting to get clarification in order to assist you.
I was just talking to @QuixoticJeremy last night about how 16/20 posts in a thread are almost always just trying to get the OP to fill in the information that should have been in the original post. It's like pulling teeth.
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@scottalanmiller It's ridiculous, and then in the midst of all that you end up with an inevitable pissing contest of people arguing semantics that no one even has clarification on yet because the OP hasn't actually identified the circumstances surrounding the issue.
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@r3dpand4 said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller It's ridiculous, and then in the midst of all that you end up with an inevitable pissing contest of people arguing semantics that no one even has clarification on yet because the OP hasn't actually identified the circumstances surrounding the issue.
Yes, once everyone works only from assumptions, it gets to be such a mess.
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@scotth I love slack, very useful. there is a lot you can do with in other than messaging.
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@jmoore said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scotth I love slack, very useful. there is a lot you can do with in other than messaging.
Have you looked at Rocket or Mattermost? most of those Slack features I find really annoying and disable. They are just distracting.
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@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@jmoore said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scotth I love slack, very useful. there is a lot you can do with in other than messaging.
Have you looked at Rocket or Mattermost? most of those Slack features I find really annoying and disable. They are just distracting.
I have not but I will take a good look at those. Thanks for mentioning them.
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@jmoore said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@jmoore said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scotth I love slack, very useful. there is a lot you can do with in other than messaging.
Have you looked at Rocket or Mattermost? most of those Slack features I find really annoying and disable. They are just distracting.
I have not but I will take a good look at those. Thanks for mentioning them.
We use Rocket and like it a lot.
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@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@jmoore said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@jmoore said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scotth I love slack, very useful. there is a lot you can do with in other than messaging.
Have you looked at Rocket or Mattermost? most of those Slack features I find really annoying and disable. They are just distracting.
I have not but I will take a good look at those. Thanks for mentioning them.
We use Rocket and like it a lot.
Is there a demo or something to look at?
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@tim_g said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@jmoore said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@jmoore said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scotth I love slack, very useful. there is a lot you can do with in other than messaging.
Have you looked at Rocket or Mattermost? most of those Slack features I find really annoying and disable. They are just distracting.
I have not but I will take a good look at those. Thanks for mentioning them.
We use Rocket and like it a lot.
Is there a demo or something to look at?
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And... https://open.rocket.chat/home. It is a bit slow though.
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We currently use Mattermost internally. I really like it, and the app support is good. I didn't look that closely at Rocket though, so I can't really compare. I was mostly comparing Mattermost to Openfire.
