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Discord/Slack community

GenDemo — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:37:45 GMT

Hi All

I can't seem to find something like a Discord or Slack community for SAS - would anyone be interested in something like that?

Re: Discord/Slack community

japelin — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 03:41:43 GMT

In discord, there is no public server for SAS, is there?
A place for chatting is certainly nice, but I don't think it's desirable to have a place for questions/answers and scattered knowledge.
Why don't you suggest to add a chat server in SAS Community?

Re: Discord/Slack community

GenDemo — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 05:27:55 GMT

yeah can do.
I find the Slack community for dbt great. and they run Q&A sessions for their conferences through there as well. Its really cool.

Re: Discord/Slack community

AllanBowe — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:38:37 GMT

I'm one of the admins for the "sasusers" slack group - we have hundreds of members, it's an open group, anyone can join:

https://join.slack.com/t/sasusers/shared_invite/zt-7w1z5ott-kEYvtjdGzV0nBic~F1cA8Q

Re: Discord/Slack community

GenDemo — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:02:35 GMT

Ah Brilliant, thnx!

I think you should have a banner at the top of the Community Page to link to the Slack channel.

Re: Discord/Slack community

AllanBowe — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:20:23 GMT

Communities is run by SAS institute, whereas the slack channel is run by SAS users (like myself). It's also worth nothing that the slack channel is on 'free tier' so messages are automatically deleted after sometime, unlike communities where helpful answers are preserved and indexed.

So for questions / answers, communities rocks! For random chit chat, slack is one option. There is also a chat feature on https://sasensei.com (not as good as slack though).