probably just getting to a good slack clone is good for a step #1
I wonder if a shell for creating chatbots that could interact with this slack client could make it differentiated from slack? we have some code for doing that although it’s a bit intermixed with our current app. It also could be a separate repo if this slack clone has an API…
I’d also like to see richer content in the stream, like a way to embed html cards. if you could ask your bot “when’s the next Avenger’s showtime?” and it could send back a little googlenow type clickable card with links, rather than just an image…
please feel free to consider UserAccounts as the set of packages to be used to add user access to the app.
I might help to keep it up and setup correctly as I’m doing for Telescope.
Good initiative though!
Lets see what a community is able to come out with
Well I stop paying attention for a couple of days and then fun things happens.
FWIW, I would have suggested a nice spacey name like Ether, or for the fun a adding a nice spacey H2G2 theme, Sub-Etha.
But here’s what I really wanted to suggest. If you want to build a Slack clone but have one piece of functionality that differentiates it, I’d suggest adding a way to federate separate systems (a la Diaspora. I can’t help but think that if Diaspora had Meteor instead of Rails when they started it out, it would have gone a lot further). That’s my 2 cents.
I’m adding anyone who want’s to be part of this. As mentioned earlier send me a mail or actually it’s nothing secret we’re sending so just answer here with your Github and Trello username.
@timbrandin I love the idea i see there is also a spacetalk slack account. I think it’s good to communicate in a more direct way than a forum or a trello board… makes the community more connected imho. Would you mind adding all the developers to the spacetalk slack?
I just added server muting and server banning to MRC can we salvage any of this or is MRC going to have a different intention than this as it was made to be a personally owned and branded version of either an IM server (Telegram, etc.) or IRC, Slack, etc. type service (per a server config of enabling things).
I’d love to help out with the WebRTC portion, that’s something I’ve been meaning to learn more about through implementation. I wonder if we could implement a translator inside for English - Chinese users to talk to each other.
Any chance you could make the slack spacetalk community self-invite, so that one person won’t have to go through pains to invite every interested member individually? For example, here’s how the codebuddies slack is set up: http://codebuddiesmeet.herokuapp.com. The installation is pretty easy: https://github.com/rauchg/slackin
