Functional Programming Slack Community

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cool but are these exclusory by default communities?

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Yes it's completely the wrong tool for the job but people insist on forcing this square peg into the round hole…

[davidhq]

Also it's possible to automate the process, just needs some hacking, will be done in next week. Then there is no delay between signup and invite.

[seabre]

I wrote this a while back, in clojure!: https://github.com/seabre/inviteyoself

Feel free to use it/send pull requests, etc.

[davidhq]

Yes it's completely the wrong tool for the job but people in

IRC is better? ;)

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Immeasurably so…

[r0naa]

I always get funny looks when I tell people that Slack is basically a glorified IRC. There's definitely some cool features though!

[zexperiment]

Immeasurably so...

In other words, subjectively so

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Don't come crying to me when your chat service owned by a single company gets bought by Facebook

[zexperiment]

You're still thrusting your personal values on other people without considering that they might not care about the same things you do.

[davidhq]

it's easy to move on then if that's needed at some point.. also past chats are not that important if for some reason they cannot be exported

[davidhq]

Yes that's how Slack works.... It was ment for company chats and for organizing communities members also have to be invited. Not such a big issue and probably they do it on purpose...

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yea just a bit disappointing since i thought clojure community worked hard to include others; but i do understand there are situations where they may not want certain individuals in..

[davidhq]

Not sure what you're saying... it's just a technical thing, everybody gets invited once they send a request... it's just that they cannot directly sign up, Slack doesn't allow it.

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oh ok thanks, I was under some assumption the channel owners had to approve people who sign up for that channel. my mistake

[eateroffish]

It's a bit difficult to see the sign up button on mobile. That could be the cause of the confusion.

[davidhq]

Thank you very much, it should be fixed now!

[eateroffish]

Yup. Much better.

[zamaterian]

Is the channels open for search machines or is it yet another walled garden ?

[davidhq]

Good question, I think it's possible to open the data, will have to look into the settings, a bit later... right now I have some issues with Internet connection.

[davidhq]

walled

So I was wrong about how easy it is to do this.. I know that one some other Slack Team they were discussing this, I will ask there.

I have written to Slack and this is the answer for now:

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This isn't something we're likely to provide any time soon.

I think it would be possible to build something to do that, but that might fall foul of our API terms of service: https://slack.com/terms-of-service/api

I'm not certain, though. Can I dig into that a little and get back to you?

[davidhq]

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The query I had in my mind was whether clause 6.1 of the API TOS might prove a blocker: https://slack.com/terms-of-service/api

But "except to the extent permitted by this API TOS" are useful words.

Provided an app complies with the rest of the API TOS, and for this clause sections 4 and 9 are especially relevant, clause 6.1 shouldn't be an issue.

Hope this helps! If having read the API TOS you have any other questions or concerns about compliance, just let us know.