Slack integration

drewverlee · February 26, 2018, 6:32pm

Would it help if you could easily move a question from slack to clojureverse? I think it would be nice to have a button to pull information from slack to clojureverse where its easier to find.

l3nz · February 27, 2018, 9:00am

It would be interesting to see who uses Slack actively here. I - for one - don’t.
But it would be a nice move to raise visibility of the forum.

orbjet · February 27, 2018, 9:22am

One thing I dislike about Slack is the need to re-read a lot after a while, but an interesting question on Slack would be nice to discuss in a forum fashion way. It might also “provoke” some readers to register and interact with.

chris · February 28, 2018, 12:39am

I think that having a category in Clojureverse for “good bits of Slack” and an easy integration point to move well-answered questions, useful conversations, etc. from Slack to that category would go a long way toward solving the evergreen problem facing the Clojurians Slack community, namely that Slack’s business model fundamentally is not here for giving a group in the low five figures with no institutional support a way to have archived, searchable history without paying Slack $texas.

plexus · March 1, 2018, 2:34am

Discourse provides an extensible system for how to render various links called OneBox, e.g. if I put in a link to Wikipedia it shows the first paragraph, if I put it in a gist it shows a truncated version of the code.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/plexus/bba60540e714b31dcac02eb7cdf02fbc

A game of snake.cljs

;; # A game of snake

;; First create the board that the snake will move on. For now the board is just an empty rectangle, but it's a cell so what's inside it can change. We'll update the board later so it contains the snake.

(defcell board 
  (let [square #(colorize "white" (rectangle 10 10))]
    (->> (range 20))
    (apply above (map #(apply beside (map square (range 20))) (range 20)))))

(defcell last-key nil)

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Links to the slack log currently don’t do anything, but we could change that so they render the message, or if possible, the slack thread. That would go a long way towards making it easy to continue conversations from Slack on Clojureverse.

https://clojurians-log.clojureverse.org/re-frame/2016-05-07.html#inst-2016-05-07T00:09:29.000497Z

There’s a related issue on clojurians-log-app about rendering threads.

plexus · March 1, 2018, 2:42am

Github issue for clojurians-log-app: https://github.com/clojureverse/clojurians-log-app/issues/13

I added some more thoughts there.