- We need a realtime group communication tool for third-party developers and SCF employees to communicate with each other (e.g. during a hackathon).
- Slack is the obvious choice, so we setup seeclickfix-api.slack.com.
- Unfortunately Slack "teams" are gated, either by the email domain of the organization/company, or by invite-only. So we have to manually invite interested users, who have given us their email address. This is obviously not a scalable/viable process.
Enter slackin, a server/module that enables public access to an invite-only Slack team. Think Freenode for Slack.
It provides:
- A landing page we can point users, featuring a self-serve, automatic invite generator to our gated Slack channel.
- A realtime badge (
<iframe>) to embed on any website, that shows the number of connected users (via socket.io). - A static badge (SVG) that works well from static mediums (e.g. README file, GitHub pages).
Point to http://seeclickfix-api-slack.herokuapp.com.
The image for our logo on the landing page is retrieved from the Slack API. It can be managed in the admin settings on the Slack team.
<script async defer src="http://slackin.yourhost.com/slackin.js"></script>or for the large version, append ?large:
<script async defer src="http://slackin.yourhost.com/slackin.js?large"></script><img src="http://seeclickfix-api-slack.herokuapp.com/badge.svg">