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		mburns on April 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communi... Some clients will intercept multi-line messages and let you POST the content to a pastebin. That way, supported clients show pretty-printed code and unsupported client just see a URL. Ex: https://blog.irccloud.com/pastebins/

s73ver on April 12, 2017 [–]

And how do I know that everyone in the room is using such a client? I know that everyone using Slack will see the message as I intended it to be seen.

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