Slack integration

william.owen

Us there currently any way to enable slack integration? I was very interested in this feature which I now think was provided by a plugin; this plugin seems to no longer be available. Was there a more generic webhooks system put in place, was this plugin just abandoned?

julian

nodebb-plugin-slack/package.json at master · nhitchins/nodebb-plugin-slack

NodeBB Plugin for notifying forum administrators of new posts via Slack webhooks. - nodebb-plugin-slack/package.json at master · nhitchins/nodebb-plugin-slack

GitHub (github.com)

It likely still works, and while it probably hasn't been abandoned, per se (ping @nhitchins !), it just hasn't maintained its nbbpm.compatibility string, so it no longer shows up in the installables list.

You can install it manually via npm and let us know

pichalite

@julian sent a PR (to pick whick categories to post from) for this in Jan still waiting for it to be merged.

pichalite

may be I should fork it, release a new one and maintain it.

william.owen

@pichalite That would be pretty cool man.. the idea of category picking would be excellent.

I also think this plugin is fairly important. Slack is taking over but it doesn't allow for more structured and threaded conversations. No one wants to go back to email forum spam but to get notifications of new topics and encourage the slack community to see new forum content would alow the forum to reach the community and not spam ( or be ignored in ) there email

Best of both worlds?

julian

@pichalite said:

may be I should fork it, release a new one and maintain it.

Call it nodebb-plugin-slack-extended

pichalite

@julian

william.owen

I had a look and nhitchins was apparently last online about a year ago which is roughly when the plugin was last updated. Does seem to have the air of an abandoned plugin.

@pichalite do you think you will fork this and merge your PR?

pichalite

@william.owen probably... no promises though

william.owen

@pichalite No; no... I am taking that as basically some sort of solid immutable contract.

pichalite

@william.owen OK, published new plugin. You can pick which categories to post from in the ACP plugin settings page.

nodebb-plugin-slack-extended

william.owen

@pichalite said:

nodebb-plugin-slack-extended

You sir are a legend; thank you

pichalite

plugin updated with suggestions from @julian posted on the original plugin

Consider using get*Fields for retrieving data · Issue #3 · nhitchins/nodebb-plugin-slack

Re: these lines here, consider using the NodeBB library methods .getCategoryFields() and .getTopicFields()

GitHub (github.com)

theportablegeek

Is the Slack Extended Plugin only one-way (i.e. sends from Nodebb to Slack but not the other way)?