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title: Why Free Code Camp Left Slack
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Slack is a popular chatroom service that Free Code Camp outgrew
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![Free Code Camp's Slack usage stats](//discourse-user-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/original/2X/d/da98adf7a036ae5bd8410b09c64f394d014694a0.png)
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As much as we enjoyed using this service, it is a poor fit for large open source communities. This said, many open source communities still use Slack, and Slack does nothing to discourage this practice.
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If you're curious, you can read about <a href='http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Slack's false advertising and the debacle this caused in June 2015</a>.
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Free Code Camp now uses <a href='https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/freecodecamp/wiki/Gitter' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Gitter</a>.
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