Slackbot - call for discussion, then development

knewter commented 7 years ago

We need to build a slackbot once the core forum is chugging along nicely, because we hit that stretch goal! If you have thoughts about the overall design, go ahead and spam them in this issue. We'll collect them up and have a design discussion around them once 1.0 launches, before beginning development (which will also be done on this issue).

TheNicholasNick commented 7 years ago

What's the point of the bot? Or is that what this issue is for ?

I'd like there to be a way to share roles. If there is a category in firestorm and a group has access to it and there is a channel in discord with a specific role. Then a user who has connected their discord account to their firestorm account should get access to the firestorm categories that match their discord roles and vice versa.

The next thing is you're able to assign flair or something to people on discord so having that automatically sync and be visible in firestorm would be ideal too.

Once firestorm is done I'm hoping I'll be able to use it as the forum part of an information system I have planned. Our group uses another forum software, however I don't like it as it takes forever to load (1-2secs lol) after each click and the screen always shuffles itself around while leading.

So this sync between discord and firestorm user and groups/roles would be great + the flair/attribute. If that is not what is intended, then no biggie, I'm sure it won't be difficult to do it on my own.

Trevoke commented 7 years ago

What are the things a bot can do, as intermediary between Slack and a forum?

It could notify:

when a new post appears in a category
when a reply is made to a particular post
when a reply is made to all posts in a category
of changes to a poll (assuming we have things like polls)
of the status, basic metrics, whatever (100 emails sent per hour, 4 new posts per minute, etc)

It could be used...

to start a new post, maybe from a Slack message
to convert a Slack message into a reply to a thread
to vote on a poll
to ask for personal stats
to send someone a DM on the forum
to retrieve a particular topic that is relevant to the conversation
to search for topics

... What else?

alanwilhelm commented 7 years ago

I do something like this in another app. https://github.com/BlakeWilliams/Elixir-Slack is working well. I use it to notify via slack for a large number of system events and also to perform system actions from slack. Is that library an option?

knewter commented 7 years ago

@alanwilhelm I like the idea of using https://github.com/hedwig-im/hedwig. I'm super familiar with it and it has the benefit that a slackbot becomes an anything-else bot trivially just by adding adapters

alanwilhelm commented 7 years ago

@knewter that makes sense, way more flexible!

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