# Some place to share / see visualizations

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/some-place-to-share-see-visualizations/10931>\
**Category:** ROS General\
**Tags:** meta\
**Created:** [October 8, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/some-place-to-share-see-visualizations/10931 "2019-10-08T17:47:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![wjwwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/wjwwood/32/13715_2.png) [@wjwwood](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/wjwwood)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/some-place-to-share-see-visualizations/10931/12 "2019-10-08T23:35:00Z")

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> [@Katherine\_Scott](#):
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> I want to throw my $0.02 in here. If we wanted to avoid the nastiness that happens on Discord, and the technical difficulties of using IRC, perhaps we could start an “official” slack channel.

That was also suggested, and we already created a rosorg slack, but slack has plenty of its own issues for a community like ours (as opposed to companies which normally use slack), and we already explicitly decided to stop using it:

> **[An instantaneous chat platform for the ROS community](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/an-instantaneous-chat-platform-for-the-ros-community/7794/13)**
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> We explicitly stopped using slack: from: http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/2016-March/069890.html After feedback about the failings of Google Groups and the non-open, proprietary nature of Slack, we launched an experiment migrating the...

But if I can suggest it, we shouldn’t hijack this thread (though this is somewhat on topic for it), there is an existing thread that would probably be better to discuss this on. I’d recommend you post your comment there:

> **[An instantaneous chat platform for the ROS community](https://discourse.ros.org/t/an-instantaneous-chat-platform-for-the-ros-community/7794)**
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> Continuing the discussion from Design process of ROS 2: After reading through an engaging thread over in the Design Process of ROS-2 category, I wanted to follow up on a particular point made by @wjwwood by re-opening a general discussion for it:...

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