@user/dropbox channel app

[tonygentilcore]

From @tonygentilcore on August 24, 2016 21:13

From @aza on August 19, 2016 1:6

@user/dropbox channel app

• Oauth against Dropbox and you've got yourself a @user/dropbox channel
• The file hierarchy is mapped to channel hierarchy, just navigate and browse as per normal: your dropbox files are now rendered in beautiful Other Chat styles

  Use Cases

The integration is simple, but very powerful.

• We haven't shared our wedding photos yet because Facebook isn't our jam, and they are socially dead on Dropbox. With this, I'd:
  • Navigate to @za/dropbox/path/to/wedding/photos
  • Nickname it to @za/wedding, keep it private, read-only, reactions-enabled
  • Invite everyone who attended wedding into the channel via their email, thereby on-boarding them (thanks to our soon-to-be slippery entry)

In one swell swoop, we give Other Chat desktop sync/files capabilites, and enviralized Dropbox content within the Chatternet.

• Designer Fund retreat use case
  • A group of ~25 of us part of the Designer Fund Guild went on a retreat. There is no one place for us to talk, except on an email thread, so to share photos, DFG sent an email to a Dropbox folder. Photos were shared only one way (i.e., I couldn't contribute back my photos.
  • With Other Chat...
  • They'd make a channel #DFG
  • They'd install @designerfund/dropbox and then nickname @designerfund/dropbox/path/to/photos #DFG/Retreat2016Photos
  • Then invite everyone in :)

Copied from original issue: other-xyz/other.js#39

Copied from original issue: other-xyz/time-cone#74

[tonygentilcore]

Dupe against original #39