Slim: Support Options

[geggleto]

• Deprecate help.slimframework.com's forums
• Replace it with a General Support page detailing ways to get support.
  
  
  
  • Stackoverflow
  
  
  • IRC link to freenode client
  
  
  • Slack
  
  
• List of blogs, tutorials, video series

[tflight]

:+1: the above.

• Review and/or replace the wiki.

[codeguy]

I'm on board with this assuming the community is.

[akrabat]

Slack signup link: https://slimphp-slack-invite.herokuapp.com for whomever creates this new page…

I still prefer IRC though :)

[geggleto]

heh, yeah ircloud is just so nice :) :+1:

[mathmarques]

Everybody talks about https://gitter.im/
Never used it, but can be an option.

I'm ok with IRC though

[akrabat]

Another potential option is a free Discourse account.

@codeguy is investigating this.

[piotr-cz]

I like gitter.im.
It\s clean, you may log in with GitHub account and supports code formatting.

[akrabat]

Current status:

• Our support forum is now discourse.slimframework.com
• We have IRC at #slimphp on Freenode
• We have a Slack community.
• Questions are also being asked on the slim tag on Stack Overflow.

[silentworks]

Please make that tag slimphp on Stack Overflow, slim is also the name of a popular ruby templating library.

[akrabat]

I didn't name it - it's been slim for 6 years now, though… http://stackoverflow.com/tags/slim/info

[codeguy]

Slim (the PHP framework) came out before Slim (the templating language) which is why "slim" was used on StackOverflow.

[silentworks]

Ah I see, just noticed Slim(templating language) is using slim-lang tag.

[tuupola]

I am the one fixing the Ruby tags almost daily :)

[alexweissman]

I like Gitter, and use it for my own Slim-based project. However, be warned that gitter public chat logs are search engine indexed by default (though this can be disabled by the chat owner), and that they prevent messages from being deleted after 5 minutes or so, effectively making anything you say in chat permanent. See this issue.

I deal with this "feature" by providing a disclaimer in my chat. There are alternative chat platforms out there that could be self-hosted, but I'm not sure if they are as easily integrated with Github.

On StackOverflow, you should consider upvoting my recommendation to merge the slim and slimframework tags. Alternatively, they can be merged as tag synonyms.