Announcing: The Permanent Portfolio Slack Channel

[bitcoininthevp]

Ive created a Slack chat room for our Permanent Portfolio community with signup form here:

https://permanentportfolioslack.herokuapp.com/

After signup (free, just need an email address), you can login here:

https://permanentportfolio.slack.com

Ive setup rooms for bonds, cash, gold, stocks but we can add more as you all see fit. If you have not used Slack before, its a great tool for teams as well as communities. Give it a shot!

I think the forum is great and dont see the Slack channel as a replacement but just another option to discuss short form/chat/news topics.

I am not affiliated with anyone or anything, just trying to contribute.

[bitcoininthevp]

Why should I sign up with (assuming your description is accurate) something that is essentially a copy of what already exists here?

Slack is more of a real time chat. Forums are (usually) longer form and less timely. Txt message vs email might be an analogy.

Try it out if you are curious!

[bitcoininthevp]

There are other finance/investing Slack channels out there, thought PP could use its own. Here are examples of others:

https://www.hamsterpad.com/chats/finance

[l82start]

i love seeing people making the effort to expand the community and its options, but i am wondering if you noticed the new forum software came with a chat center (check out the link in the bar up above)...

[l82start]

i don't expect it to fire up unless there are meets about to happen or we have a major news event unfolding real time, we just don't seem to attract the chat about the weather and ballgames social media type personalities very much... to many INTJ's interested in the more in depth discussions the forum already provides for...

[buddtholomew]

Its unclear to me why so many are pushing Slack as the "be all, save all" chat application.
We recently migrated from Skype to Slack and honestly there is absolutely no difference.
Skype supported iPhone calls whereas Slack currently doesn't, so to date its under-performing our previous solution.

[MachineGhost]

Its unclear to me why so many are pushing Slack as the "be all, save all" chat application.
We recently migrated from Skype to Slack and honestly there is absolutely no difference.
Skype supported iPhone calls whereas Slack currently doesn't, so to date its under-performing our previous solution.

It's the new, new thing.