slack-help

Joakim Verona 2024-03-29T14:02:34.008389Z

Hello, I'm considering implementing a slack <-> matrix bridge for my matrix server, So I can use this Clojurians slack with my Matrix client. Is anybody here using this kind of bridge, how well does it work?

Joakim Verona 2024-03-30T14:44:41.740289Z

Okay, thanks, so there would be a problem that if I add a bridge to slack on my matrix server, it would generate annoying messages on the slack end? I see, that would indeed not be desirable.

seancorfield 2024-03-30T18:50:04.143509Z

It would likely generate poorly formatted messages with unverifiable usernames, yes. Which is why we won't allow bridges in, only bridges out.

Joakim Verona 2024-03-30T18:50:43.906429Z

tnx

seancorfield 2024-03-29T16:35:45.499189Z

When we last tried this it was a fairly poor experience on both sides since the formatting and username stuff doesn't translate well. In addition, since we may lose sponsorship and drop to a free plan at any time, we have historically denied nearly all integrations (because they are limited on the free plan) so it's unlikely we would let you add the integration here anyway.

seancorfield 2024-03-29T16:38:23.640289Z

A one-way bridge, from Slack to some other system, would be considered -- we have logbot which mirrors Slack channels to a logging system on ClojureVerse and we have zulip-mirror-bot which mirrors Slack channels to a stream in the Clojurians Zulip Chat. Those don't "pollute" this Slack with messages from outside so the experience of Slack users here is not affected. Formatting/content etc is lost through both of those mirrors tho'...