In the past we've relied on the excellent IRC-based ChatNaNo chatroom for our online events. IRC, however, doesn't support context history, so I'd like to try a slack-based chatroom.

In 2016, Naperville willtry out a Slack chatroom (see naperwrimo.slack.com). To get access, enter your e-mail address on this page. You will receive your account credentials through e-mail and be able to join the room.

Slack has an advantage over IRC in that there is contextual history preserved for the room, so that people can interact with each other asynchronously (where in IRC you might miss a person by seconds and never know that they had been there at all).

To run a word war, you can go to the #wordwars slack channel and run a command like this: /remind #wordwars Stop writing in 17 minutes

Note that for privacy reasons, people's e-mail addresses are not displayed in their slack profiles (this is a slack channel configuration option we've decided to do).

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

--Tim

Don't forget about this if you're looking for online word wars, or just someone to chat with.