Some time ago I was in slack VyOS (
vyos-community.slack.com), but one day it appeared to be not valid anymore. I tried to re-assign, there was a message to wait for approval, but nothing happen.
What happen with slack? Was it abandoned? If not, then why I can’t login anymore and re-join?
Yeah I got kicked off as well. Based on a previous blog post it sounds like they are restricting it to people that contribute code.
You got a valid link over at: Resources – VyOS
The slack-channel is still working, at least the public parts such as #vyos-general-discussion
It didn’t work. I got info to wait for approval and this never happen. Also I remind I was there before and somehow one day it was not valid anymore.
I have tried now with google account and got info:
The email address must match one of the domains listed below. Please try another email.
Contact the workspace administrator at VyOS Community for an invitation.
What is it about?
They announced on June 7th (on Slack):
Soon, we will transition the Slack workspace to contributors, customers, and partners only, making it exclusive to these categories.
If you use personal email for access, we recommend updating your profiles so we can identify you correctly
Hmm I reporter a few bugs, but I guess it doesn’t make me contributor 
How to get @vyos e-mail?
You don’t need an @vyos email to be on Slack, they just need to be able to identify you. For “contributors”, the Jira homepage has a link to a form that should help with that:
To request your contributor slack account, use this form
A better option who doesnt do this exclusively nonsense is then to join vyos over at libera.chat which you can use whatever favorite IRC-client you got. If they want slack only for internal company stuff they could just remove that option all together from the resources page.
Unfortunately there is not much action in that channel for now but there are about 50 users who have joined it (looking at the userlist as of writing).
For whatever reason it feels like the team behind VyOS doesnt want an active community (or are just very bad at expressing it if they want)? Something have obviously changed to the worse since I joined the community summer of 2023. It was more welcoming and engaging back then…
Not sure how many of you guys use Matrix for chat, but I did just create a public room for VyOS at https://matrix.to/#/#vyos:matrix.org
Maybe one day VyOS will official adopt matrix so they can stop paying Slack all the 
and allow community participation again.
Why not Discord for community? While it is not perfect, most people use it. With IRC or matrix (I don’t even know what it is) there will limited number of people.
Why not Discord for community?
Here is my response to that:
After slack changes (a long time ago) discord give better experience. Yeah ridiculous, but it is what it is.
Discord experience depend on people in channel. Discord itself is ok, unless you got your experience from channels with kids and teenagers playing games
My €0.05 goes for IRC such as Libera.Chat
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