Created a Slack community for Node.js!!

[Justin Maat]

Hi All, 

I created a Slack community for all things related to Node.js   I thought sometimes it's nice to chat in real-time as opposed to the forum or Q/A style (google groups, reddit, SO, etc..).

http://nodeslackers.io   

Feel free to join in!  Tell others so we can grow the community.  

[// ravi]

On Mar 25, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Justin Maat <jxm...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I created a Slack community for all things related to Node.js I thought sometimes it's nice to chat in real-time as opposed to the forum or Q/A style (google groups, reddit, SO, etc..).
>
> http://nodeslackers.io

Hello Justin,

your effort is greatly appreciated so please forgive my critical thoughts: do we need one more channel over and above this list (not real-time as you say), Gitter: nodeJS, node-forward, IRC, … is there an advantage that Slack would bring to this? Also, I already use Slack for work, and I believe the Slack app only allows you to be part of one community at a time, which would make switching back and forth a painful necessity (or am I wrong, perhaps?).

Regards,

—ravi

[Aria Stewart]

On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 9:06:59 AM UTC+13, // ravi wrote:

your effort is greatly appreciated so please forgive my critical thoughts: do we need one more channel over and above this list (not real-time as you say), Gitter: nodeJS, node-forward, IRC, … is there an advantage that Slack would bring to this? Also, I already use Slack for work, and I believe the Slack app only allows you to be part of one community at a time, which would make switching back and forth a painful necessity (or am I wrong, perhaps?).

You are wrong -- as of the 1.0 client, it supports multiple slacks at once.

Aria

[// ravi]

Ah okay, thank you for that. I have always wanted to wear multiple slacks :-).

—ravi

[Zach Rollyson]

Hi Ravi,

It seems like it's fairly easy to switch back and forth between communities (are they called communities?).  On the Mac app it's just Cmd+1, Cmd+2 to switch between.  I don't have a strong opinion about the necessity, but for me personally this is nice because I already use Slack on a daily basis but I've never gotten into IRC.  Also, isn't there a way to integrate the IRC channel into Slack?

[Justin Maat]

Sorry to all for taking so long to get the invites out.  I have a script which is supposed to auto-grant access upon registration, but had some issues on my server earlier.  This is was just a random thought I had while coding in a coffee shop a few days ago.  I use slack for other projects I'm in and it just started with asking a couple friends if we could start a Node group.

@Aria - Would love it if you and some of the other major contributors joined (if you haven't already).  I respect alot of the content you post here in this google group.  It would be awesome if some of the folks I consider to be major players would hop on the Slack chat sometimes :)

@Zach - "Also, isn't there a way to integrate the IRC channel into Slack?"

  -I'm working on this soon :)   I see some tutorials going the other way (Slack to IRC), but I'm working on getting the IRC actually embedded in Slack soon.

If you have any other ideas, I have a trello board for users to submit/vote on feature requests - https://trello.com/b/aZKdh2La/nodeslackers-io-development

I plan to build nodeslackers.io into a collaborative community.  Just don't know exactly how yet.  Slack is the first step :)

[// ravi]

> On Mar 26, 2015, at 4:11 PM, Zach Rollyson <za...@izimobile.com> wrote:
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> Hi Ravi,
>
> It seems like it's fairly easy to switch back and forth between communities (are they called communities?). On the Mac app it's just Cmd+1, Cmd+2 to switch between.

So I found out via Aria. Thank you,

—ravi

[Zach Rollyson]

Of course, I didn't mean to duplicate information… this is a moderated forum.

[// ravi]

On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Zach Rollyson <za...@izimobile.com> wrote:
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> Of course, I didn't mean to duplicate information… this is a moderated forum.
>

No worries, it happens! I didn’t mean to sound like I was trying to admonish you :-) :-).

—ravi

[Nathan Rajlich]

Also related: https://github.com/rauchg/slackin

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[Justin Maat]

@Nathan, thanks for the tip.  I think someone in the Slack chat actually recommended this.  

I ended up creating a custom script to auto-register the users (there's a hidden api in slack for registration).

After looking at it again, slackin seems to offer a bit more though.  I might add this when I revamp that nodeslackers.io webpage

Thanks

[Julian Carrillo]

Hello, is this group still alive? I've tried signing on the website twice, but I never got a confirmation email.