3rd Party Slack Client Impossible?

[bmay...@gmail.com]

I am currently writing a Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 Slack client but just hit a wall. It seems that there is no way to post a message AS THE USER to a channel. The chat.postMessage method always posts as a generic bot and not the user. Without the ability to actually post a message as the authenticated user, 3rd party Slack clients are impossible.

I just need a method to post a message as the authenticated user. Any plans to allow this?

[Paul Hammond]

Hi,

I'm sorry this isn't working the way you need it to. The bad news is that this isn't the only case where the existing API doesn't allow you to build a full Slack client. 

The good news is that we're working on releasing methods that provide all the functionality needed to create your own Slack client. BUT there's a lot of it and it's taking some time to get it all done. We'll get there as soon as we can,

Paul

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:41 PM, <bmay...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am currently writing a Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 Slack client but just hit a wall. It seems that there is no way to post a message AS THE USER to a channel. The chat.postMessage method always posts as a generic bot and not the user. Without the ability to actually post a message as the authenticated user, 3rd party Slack clients are impossible.

I just need a method to post a message as the authenticated user. Any plans to allow this?

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