Integration with Slack?

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There is a discourse plugin that allows the forum to integrate with chat providers.

This topic is for discussion whether / how we could integrate this forum with the existing Slack server (scsynth.slack.com).

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We can definitely add this if there’s a demand.

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I think this is a good idea. Slack has been a good tool for active devs - and having some way to chat / interact with the forum with strengthen both.

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What would the slack integration do though? Not sure I want forum notifications appearing in slack, or slack stuff appearing here.

Some kind of link to the slack channel would be good though.

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I agree with @cian. I like the idea of somehow integrating the two, but I don’t want chat notifications for a forum. I find it frustrating to switch contexts. I’d be fine with it if it were in its own channel though; somewhere I could totally ignore but others could use :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi, I Just joined this Forum… and I searched for Slack because I was confused by this statement: in your "Welcome to the SuperCollider Forum page:

" ## Other helpful SuperCollider resources are available at:

GitHub - //supercollider.github.io/ ](https://supercollider.github.io/)

Mailing List - ://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/BEAST/research/supercollider/mailinglist.aspx ](://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/BEAST/research/supercollider/mailinglist.aspx)
Slack - //scsynth.slack.com/ ](https://scsynth.slack.com/)"

I thought “Oh nice! they have a slack workspace!” but my effort to join was futile because one has to know who the Administrator is to get invited. (Is there any other way to get a slack invitation? )
From your discussion here I take it only developers are welcome in the Slack workspace? If that is so, I’d suggest someone indicates this on this web page? Just my 2 cents. :slight_smile:

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hey @DoubleStop,

welcome! a couple things:

  1. a public invite link for Slack is here: https://join.slack.com/t/scsynth/shared_invite/enQtMzk3OTY3MzE0MTAyLTFmMTliMmU0NjIwYzgyZGY1MjgxNGI2MGUxMTNlMWVhZWQzZjFmOTJhNzg2NDdmNzZmM2JiYTkyMjRiNDBiOTk

  2. where is that welcome message posted? it ought to be updated with the correct link.

  3. anyone is welcome to join the Slack team!

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Yeah, No… the page I saw is located here: Welcome to the SuperCollider Forum and I don’t see the public slack invite mentioned anywhere on it!

Anyways, Thanks! I will join! I am an enthusiastic SC newbie! :cowboy_hat_face: and I have LOTS of questions… Especially getting it to route audio to my DAW… I STILL have not succeeded! I haven’t figured out if that is because I’m just a lowly windows 10 user!

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Ooops! Say @VIRTUALDOG … I tried the link you sent in your reply… Ummm… That link doesn’t work?

I get a slack web page stating this:

This invite link is no longer active.
Please check with the person who shared it with you to see if there’s a new link available.

??? Does it work for you?

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whoops! that is the old link. i recently created a new one because someone else had also pointed out that it expired. i’ve edited my post above to include the correct link.

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the welcome post has now been edited with the correct link. thanks again for pointing that out and sorry to anyone who wasn’t able to join because of this!