Expected: we would see the message appear in the private channel OR AT LEAST no sentry error
problem
Sentry indicates that the error is comming in chat_postEphemeral_with_fallback when we attempt to post an ephemeral message I can help you make a new Penny Chat to a direct channel (these are always prefixed with D). The "fallback" is to post the help message in the #Penny channel
solution
It would be nice if we could post a message in a private channel, but perhaps it makes sense that we can't. We need to check if Slack commands have any special allowances for things like this. Otherwise we need to just need to send to the Penny channel first without attempting to send to a private channel. WARNING: We have introduced a feature in matching where the bot creates a private channel and joins it. I think in this case the channel is reachable by the bot. Test this theory!
steps to repro
/penny helpExpected: we would see the message appear in the private channel OR AT LEAST no sentry error
problem
Sentry indicates that the error is comming in
chat_postEphemeral_with_fallbackwhen we attempt to post an ephemeral messageI can help you make a new Penny Chatto a direct channel (these are always prefixed withD). The "fallback" is to post the help message in the #Penny channelsolution
It would be nice if we could post a message in a private channel, but perhaps it makes sense that we can't. We need to check if Slack commands have any special allowances for things like this. Otherwise we need to just need to send to the Penny channel first without attempting to send to a private channel. WARNING: We have introduced a feature in matching where the bot creates a private channel and joins it. I think in this case the channel is reachable by the bot. Test this theory!
Also consider just not sending the Sentry exception in these cases. (They're currently still being sent - https://sentry.io/organizations/penny-university/issues/2005111335/?project=5284085&query=is%3Aunresolved)