slackin

Seems lik Slack is being pretty short sighted by kicking public communities off it. Slackin (https://github.com/rauchg/slackin) makes it really easy to set up a public Slack community and people love it. But it seems like Slack isn't that interested. Sure there's plenty of people using their service and not paying for it, but it's also great marketing. If I do need chat for my paid organization, I'm much more likely to pick Slack if I'm using it daily for public channels.

Any idea how make simple onboarding for public team? Something like https://github.com/rauchg/slackin for Slack. Thanks

Actually no: you can look all you like without paying, it's just kind of clumsy. If you "export your data from Slack" (yourteam.slack.com/services/export), you get the whole history, even on the free plan. I've repeatedly considered writing a bot that would—on a regular schedule—poke this page with a headless browser to generate a dump, download said dump, and ingest it into ElasticSearch (which I'd then expose through a web search, or maybe just spit out batched archive pages into a static-site S3 bucket and let Google index them.) Such a bot would be a good companion to https://github.com/rauchg/slackin for FOSS teams. But I haven't done any of that yet, because I get the feeling that putting enough attention on this little "feature" would get it quickly locked down.

Their slack team seems up and running: https://socketio.slack.com/ However, their invitation page (I guess based on https://github.com/rauchg/slackin) is down: http://slack.socket.io/.

With the popularity of Slack I have noticed that many IT related communities provide a 3rd-party website to receive an invitation to join their channel. However, the majority lack a CSRF protection allowing a malicious user to send spam to random email addresses on behalf of the admin of the channel. This has led communities like Gophers [1] to include a captcha [2] to prevent automated requests, and also modified their Slackin [3] installation to consider duplicated emails — even with the plus sign modifier [4]. I also experienced websites with CSRF tokens via HTTP headers that actually work, or not really because once you remove the header the request stops being blocked. Why is this? Are developers depending too much on package managers to install 3rd-party library to add things like this without checking if they actually work? Do comp

As an example, there is one-click-to-deploy here[1] for Heroku and Azure. [1] https://github.com/rauchg/slackin

This is simply a result of using a product for something it wasn't meant for (i.e. a hack.. or else something like https://github.com/rauchg/slackin wouldn't be necessary). Very 'clickbaity'.

I got added to the Slack communties #testing [1] and EmberJS without signing up on purpose, and I know at least one other person who also got a #testing invite. There was some speculation that this was caused by Slackin [2] [1] http://hashtagtesting.com/ [2] https://github.com/rauchg/slackin Discussion in #testing: Ted Han [8:07 PM] Yeah hi, i'm not sure how i got invited, or even what this slack is about [8:07] Testing i presume? [8:08] I'm a little curious what data source my email is being scraped from Jia Qing Yap [8:12 PM] joined #testing. Also, @sonya joined. Sonya Mann [8:40 PM] @knowtheory same, a random invite just showed up in my email inbox Nihal Mirpuri [8:40 PM] joined #testing Sonya Mann [8:40 PM] @beau same thing happened to me -- I also got an invite to EmberJS, which makes no sense sam kreter [8:43 PM] joined #tes

So guys I wrote a clone of Slackin [0]. Slackin is written in node.js. I don't know JS and it was very difficult for me to customize anything, like adding some related links to landing page, protecting the page with captcha etc. Plus slackin doesn't work if JS is disabled in browser. So I rolled down my own version written using Flask. This is my first Flask app and I really appreciate any feedback/PR. Thanks! [0] - https://github.com/rauchg/slackin

I was also curious about this. As the article mentions, Slack doesn't make it easy for your organization to allow open registration. People have developed hacks around this by running a server on Heroku [0], or using Typeform combined with Slack's API [1]. 0: https://github.com/rauchg/slackin 1: https://levels.io/slack-typeform-auto-invite-sign-ups/

i was using slackin (https://github.com/rauchg/slackin) and i think there's a bug that caused it to send shitloads of emails to users so i've disabled it. please email hello@asknestor.me for an invite to the Nestor slack.

yup i was using slackin (https://github.com/rauchg/slackin) and i think there's a bug that caused it to send shitloads of emails to users so i've disabled it. please email hello@asknestor.me for an invite to the Nestor slack.

oh is it when you signed in here: https://help.asknestor.me ? (edit: I'm using the slackin app: https://github.com/rauchg/slackin and looking into what happened)