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My phone is lighting up with slack notifications from scammers. Seems like every ICO is unable to close the vulnerability.

What are your thoughts on running an ICO and simply skipping slack as a social channel? Do people even care about slack when there's bitcointalk, telegram, discord, etc.?

IMO, slack is just a channel for communication. Since there are many scams in slack, it will be better for ICO to do without slack.

More and more dev teams are refusing slack during ico time ,that's because too many scams happened through slack in their icos period.

There are ICO's as of now is skipping slack on terms of their communication with the community or investors because of the recent happening on scamming because of those phishing links posted by them causes for people to get hacked or scammed on the funds supposed to be putted on the project which do really sucks.For now most owners do aware on this stuff and now they are starting to avoid slack and now using other way on communication.

Glad to hear it. I've been following projects on slack and telegram as each team has a different preference for where they make announcements. Enigma's seemed like a solid approach after their hack: one telegram channel for announcements only and a second for general chatter 

I think it's important, ignoring questions from potential investors is never a good thing. Although if they have other ways of communicating i guess it's fine.

I think is is better to have a instant communication platform without scamers, slack is a good platform, but I think some updates are needed to stop the scamers, and I think meybe telegram is a good choice.

It's a good idea to look carefully at the project you intend to invest in, and join their media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Telegram...) to capture the news from the project everyday.

Slack supposedly has major security problems, any method of communication will be fine, specially telegram and maybe discord.

I have seen many ICOs turning back on Slack and using Discord instead. It's a way better in terms of communication, you have every project easily organized in your 1 account (not like in Slack, where you have single slack subdomain with separated account for every project).

Slack is a good way of communicating people in an ICO but you are right slack are vulnerable to scammers but I think they are using slack because it is the easiest and fastest way of communicating. Also, I think they don't like other sites for communicating, I don't know the reason but as I observed a lot of ICOs used slack for communications.

what kind of security does discord provide over slack?

Slack specifically stated that it hasn't been designed with the concept of inviting untrusted members into channels. I do think that's a pretty lame excuse and the requirements to have it working would not be much: it's not even possible to disable Slackbot or some commands, like the remind one that is the main thing scammers are using.

Good question. What are differences?

slack is full scam. it brings no more fun. ico without slack is better. you get 10-20 wrong news  ???
there must be something better come . telegram and maybe discord is a good alternative

Because Discord has been designed for gamers which is hosting as we probably all know toxic elements, basic safeguards have been put in place to prevent people from spamming or pretend to be anyone else. Their API is also good and complete. Slack is for trusted members and they are not responsive and willing to change as a few basic feature requests on their twitter that got dismissed demonstrate.

Yeah so there's many project switching to Telegram.
Slack is too spammy now

ico without slack i guess not a problem. all ico notices can be submitted via ANN thread or their social media. because it will be difficult for us to install the app just for their ico notice

what you experience is the same as what I feel due to interference from various slack.
my phone is becoming hot and very slow, hopefully new projects are able to solve this problem.

i feel the same like you, i received a tons from slack but since slack is one of the way for us to communicate with the DEV
and for a scam activity i think you should read carefully the text

I really appreciate every form of communication with the development team when i make my decision of investing on a particular ICO and i need to have Slack to have those opportunities and if i have any questions they could answer me directly rather than waiting for my answers ,all the projects must make use of all the available options to talk to the investors and that is my opinion.

In my opinion, scammers are everywhere. We need to be careful while clicking a link or transferring money to an address. The major advantage or disadvantage in crypto is irreversible transactions. I just turn off the notifications and type my URLs.

Since I follow alot of ICOs on slack I got dozens of these in the past few days. I think ICOs should just switch over to Telegram instead of exposing newbie investors to risk. It's still up to the investor to not fall for obvious scams but there's really no reason to use Slack when telegram is better in every way.

Is slack an important factor to choose an ICO, hmmm usually the big players have all the communication platforms operating. The scam messages are annoying though

Alot of spam on the slack channels yes, so never ever follow a link from there. Otherwise its a good channel. Im liking some channels and the people around it, like Rise. Just awesome.
But if they want to contact me to mention the progress on the ICO, they better take mail or so

Normaly, slack is very practical and good app for an ICO to communicate between team and all community.
But there are so much spams, especially on ICO times. It is becoming caution app.
There should be an app for communication, it could be Slack or another one.

If the slack channel is monitored closely by the admins, it will be better

I prefer ICO using Telegram than Slack because there are so many scammers in Slack spamming phishing sites which is very annoying

People do care about slack. Most people do not want their phone connected to anything, so they just use slack on their laptop and desktop! The scamming bot are increasingvon lack. If you use your machine for important transaction, don't even go to slack!

Everytime Im in Slack there are always a spam message about etherdelta. Yes I agree with you there are many scammers these days so I still prefer telegram to used.

Mails from slack are marked as spam at my mailbox. I'm already bored with that fishing mails. But slack isn't bad as a way of communication to devs while ICO is going on.

there is other channels of communication like telegram or even bitcointalk!

i think this forum give the most visibility to a project.

Most of good projects now close their slack channel. Its good for newbies.
They are now using telegram which is more secure then slack. Slack is too fishy.

I get spam all the time from slack messages! Makes it so frustrating that sometimes I will leave the channel. Honestly I'll take Discord over slack any day. Not full of scammers, voice channels, now video and screensharing recently released. Plus the mobile app is really good, much better than the slack one. I hope more ICOs pick other applications over slack, it's a madhouse nowadays. Scammers everywhere, and it's very hard to be careful about it. I think I fell for one or two on accident, I didn't put in any information but I did click the link which is bad in and of itself. I'm trying to be more careful now and a part of that is not being on slack at all! lol

I cringe every time I see an ICO utilizing Slack for communication. Slack is not ideal for public communication--it is supposed to be used by teams within a company.

Slack is a spammers and scammer heaven. Most of the ICO Companys have leaved slack and open other communcation servers like discord.

slack is rather vulnerable for all the ways of attacks
moreover it has a lot of scams
I suppose that future ICO will use slack partially and more thoroughlully

I don't care about slacks, never use it as means of information about cryptocurrency. I prefer Twitter, Telegram, Facebook and bitcointalk.org as a source of information.

I honestly do not understand why they use Slack. They can just use telegrams. It is more secure and easy to use.

The ICO project requires social media to provide detailed information about their project to the potential investors. But now many any fraud by sending link phising through these social media is especially slack. ICO without slack will be better for the potential investor. I think telegram,facebook and twitter is better and more safe.

The messages are getting out of hand. I am getting an average of 50 phising messages a day from 4 ico slack channels with link to a fake mew site.the rate of admin interactions in this slack channels is really low.

Yes im also thinking that its possible to run an ICO without slack because there is bitcointalk forum but its hard to communicate here, why not using messnger?

There are so many phising attempts on slack and This one could break the trust of the user to this app and same as me maybe those slack user will go away and shift to use the other messaging app. And for now the best alternative for them is the telegram and also I'm waiting for the official release of the crypviser app since I think that one is more secured than anything else here.

Slack admittedly is turning to noise when it comes to ICO scams, but if ICOs start to disengage from it and stop using it then something else will surface and replace slack and here we will be talking about something like this again. Only with stricter regulations by the administrators of such entities there will be a permanent solution.

I think its happen to everybody who join slack becouse of ico. There are many scammers on slack channel. Slack always send message even every second and thats so annoying. Better ico is without slack

I think ICO's should continue using Slack, the more channels the better and Slack is easy to use.

I just think that they should have numerous channels such as all social medias, telegram, slack, bitcointalk and other forums. That way people can use whatever media they choose.

You can definitely run an ICO without Slack being one of the communication channels (beside others of course) but it's become like a 'consensus' to use it, at least, as the 'Technical' chat room where the potential ICO investors can meet up with the developers and ask all kind of questions they need to ask.

Yes the scammers suck, but slack is still very nice. Its a good way to keep up to date with the community. It is also good for giveaways and special live events. Hopefully something can be done about the spam, but slack should still stay as an important role.

Since scammers have invaded Slack platform then there is an issue. Credibility of information is then not certain and all the phishing attacks which is most annoying. ICO can do without slack for that reason. There are other alternative means of communications on social media platform .Telegram channel works so well. Twitter and face book can be use as well to relay valid and much needed information to customers and prospects.

yes im agree there is too many scam in slack. and they are use an alias that seems similar to dev of ico and admin of slack. i believe we better use telegram rather than slack. cause investor need a source of information and telegram seems good with the bot which is helpfull for member to know basic information.

Yes i have seen many scam publication in slack in all the projects, and that's why some projects like paypie who change slack with telegram, and I think thats better

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There is nothing wrong with using slack as it makes it easier for the team to form and bond, communicate in real time and at the same time be able to supervise the activities then release privilege information about the coordination of activities. The forum on the other hand is a platform to showcase their activities to the community then be ready for probe, analysis, argument and counter arguments and the determining factor as to whether the project will be successful or not.

wow .. i think i just get spam and scamer from email slack, i am very confused before, because almost all ico project that i follow do scam and spam to my email, ... i hope this problem can be solved soon

Same goes with me. Spamming of messages from different Ico slacks it does really annoying. There are certain ICOs that doesn't have a slack but still their project goes well. So why do some ico still need a slack?

I'm sure ico without slack is better, a lot of activity on slack that causes spam and also many who spread phishing sites. some ico using slack now switch using telegram. and it's better than ever

Slack is dead for ICOs, prefer telegram or discord

ICO keep insisting on using slack while they put their prospect account in jeopardy. Except there some sort of reward attached to using slack, I usually don't touch it.

There have always been huge complaints about slack and it is obvious a whole lot of devs have noticed this and have started moving straight to telegram instead. Apparently it has already affected the trust of their users gradually and this is bad.

Many ICOs recently has been closing down their slack channels and annoucing it on their sites that they do not want to support slack anymore, while new projects doesn't even open them. I think for now the general community communication will take place on telegram channels or subreddits.

Slack probably should be skipped until Slack figures out a way to deal with all these scammers. I myself have completely stopped using slack because of this reason and now have turned to other mediums like the ones you

have mentioned. Telegram does seem like the best medium at the moment but this may change in the near future thanks to projects like Status, and Obsidian.

ive heard some rumors these days that slack has been invaded by scammers and bounty hunter that joins the ico are mostly their targets , i guess that we should avoid using slack channel for now and just use another apps or software to communicate with each other like telegram and discord or other group messaging platform.  its better to be safe than being scammed.

How do you think they can update slack to get rid of scammers? I mean what kind of updates can help?  imo in all channels during ICO will be a lot of scammers, I don't think that in telegram there are fewer scammers than in slack...

There is still ico that did not use slack for communixations. We better be watchful on these ico because there are more scammers  that uses slack for thier own purposes. All i can say is join ico that do not use slack as means of communication to prevent viruses and scammers.

slack is full of scam. it brings no more fun. I Revived everyday lots of Email From Slack Chanel all are useless.  I think its batter to discuse about ICO in Medium telegram and blog are good alternative and no scmmer

Even if an ICO has Slack, I would not use it. There is still people using it, I just hope they know what they are doing.

I agree with your statement. Too many spams and the environment is not good anymore. I also prefer Telegram for updates better media exposure.

It pissed me off when Im slack there are always messaging about upgrading in myetherwallet. So I always ignored it because of I suspect it a phishing site. Yes I also prefer medium, and telegram which is okay to use.

I think people just used to do it.. and in some countries, it's much more popular then telegram, so some people even don't know that telegram exist.

To the truth. In well-developed substitutes to many "ancient" methods. With Trust the culture is constantly spreading and who knows what for a couple or a dozen years!

Telegram is more clever way to communicate with investors. We all experienced rally bad on Slack.
There is no need for slack.

Slack is not a very good solution, we tried at the start of our seed round but theb removed our slack page due to vulnerability concerns. The Telegram chat seems to be working very well for our purposes.

https://t.me/joinchat/FU2DjkM7NIJf9PG0E1W-kw

slack is quite good application for come together with all participants and follow all news and progresses about a project.
it is also useful and enable for us on ICO time. But especially on ICO and after dates it becomes a place for scammers, sometimes they really push me to logout from channel.

Slack seemed to show much potential. But I agree, it does not really seem useful anymore.

I have started muting all of my slack channels because of the constant spamming. For projects that have both or multiple chat options, i will not always forego slack and choose telegram or discord. So from my perspective, i think most people don't care too much if the project doesn't have a slack account as long as there's some form of community forum.

Yes an ICO without slack is possible because i've seen some of the ICOs here in the bounties(altcoins) and they are not requiring a slack ,thus they require discord and telegram . I think they dont require slack anymore because there are so many scammers in slack and the one the created the workplace is not able to stop the notification and spams created by other participants or users that joined their slack channel.

If Slack is limited and only for the participation of clearly listed bounty participants, then it really will not be a problem, but I think the problem is very complicated and the project should start switching to telegram and Disscord. I'm used to using Slack, and actually admins can set the post settings to minimize spam phishing.

No so many ICO skip slack and moving to telegram!
By the way! Telegram also not so comfortable, not possible to do lists! All mess just in one window! Crazy thing!

Many ico teams are refusing slack during ico time ,that's because too many scams happened through slack in their token sale period, actually many icos use discord as a chat or only announcements channel on telegram.
In my opinion telegram is the best way

I'almost agree with that. My phone is lightning up too.  There are ICO's as of now is skipping slack on terms of their communication it's the right way, a lot of scam spammers in slack.

There's a bunch of applications that can be used to chat with the development team. They also use applications that can be downloaded to your phone as well (newer apps).
Spammers come and go.

I understand your concerns that why there are multiple channels such as telegram and this forum.

I think they use it because it's easy and a simple design and work well

I think discord is much better than slack.

yea slack full of scammer. I turned off slack notification on my phone.
I don't know why some new ICOs still use slack, maybe he doesn't know other than slack or what  :-\

I personally do not like Slack channels of any ICO as there will be a lot of scammers and unfortunately Slack doesn't have any control for that so you end up having thousands of notifications for nothing and then turn of the notifications. so I don't think it is really useful.

Rocket Chat should be the standard for ICO from now. It's open source and there are many things you can do to increase the security of the community.

I think these ICO's already stopped using Slack because of these scammers sending messages to the participants and used Discord instead for current updates of the ICO and after the ICO as well which most participants are asking questions regarding the rewards they got from joining bounties.

I feel slack is shit and telegram is better anyday,and icos will scam no matter what even if they use slack or other means of online communication. No wonder countries are banning icos,cause you can't expect governments to keep their hands tied when their own citizens are getting robbed by some random douches.

I think it is very necessary once the communication media such as bitcointalk, slack, discord, amd etc etc, it is very important where we communicate with ico developers or fellow members, it allows us to get updated information

slack isn't that great. it's just popular and appears to make the team more legit in the eyes of the community so people continue to use it. imo discord or microsoft teams are much better choices.

i think there is No problem if somebody created and ICO without slack
because for now there is a lot of spam on slack channel, that very disturbing

They are now shifting to telegram. Slack is now full of scams looking for those innocent members. There are so many accounts in slack made specifically to victimize people. These phishing accounts are very wise in catching clueless slack members who can easily let go of their private keys after some fake introductions.

We skipped Slack for our ICO and are using Telegram. Was looking at using Ryver, but it really isn't designed outside of an organization that I can find. I can't believe the amount of hacks in slack.

yes, I 100% agree with your point of view. Many scammers disturb me with fake links. They want me access to a fake link to get my personal data, password and stole my money.  >:(

A lot of them are (thankfully) abandoning slack for telegram. All the scam messages were getting old.

Slack is just more of a status social channels. Nothing else. Discord is more fun and has all the features of slack, without spams and irritating pay to increase limit messages!

We had to completely remove Slack from our ICO because the phishing attempts were causing extreme damage to our investors.