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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Slack was built for small to medium-sized teams but many people (including us) are using it to build communities. The tricky part is inviting people at scale. Slack requires you to manually invite each person or batch upload a csv of email addresses. There's no way to just give someone a link to join. I'm curious if Slack builds something like this in-ho… See more
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Matt Schlicht@mattprd · Creator of Chatbots Magazine
@rrhoover joined!
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@rrhoover @stewart @buster @aunder I think it makes sense for Slack to consider how to deal with communities as many are using them for their go-to place to communicate (evidence on Hamster Pad!). But as their focus from the start has been the way companies use Slack then it may have gone on the back-burner for the time being. I love Hamster Pad but when i… See more
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Matt Schlicht@mattprd · Creator of Chatbots Magazine
@bentossell @rrhoover @stewart @buster @aunder totally agree in regards to permissions. If we could ask for less right now, we would. The only reason we're asking for so many is because that's how the Slack API works at the moment and we wanted to be sure we could provide a seamless experience for everyone on Hamster Pad (p.s To anyone from Slack reading thi… See more
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@mattprd @rrhoover @stewart @buster @aunder yeah it would be awesome to unbundle the permissions or any way to make them less 'scary' for users to accept. But I trust you Matt and have added a few Slack groups 😛
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Matt Schlicht@mattprd · Creator of Chatbots Magazine
@bentossell @rrhoover @stewart @buster @aunder 🙌 Boom! It would also be awesome if there was a place in the Slack Oauth where we could write out specifically why we are asking for the permissions we are asking for. We are all about being as transparent as possible, I would hate for someone to not want to use Hamster Pad because they get scared off by per… See more
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Doug Aitken@dougaitken · Web person
@rrhoover Isn't that just Slackin? http://rauchg.com/slackin/ Invite button on a website and users self invite, then I believe you can approve later
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@dougaitken Slackin is similar! Hamster Pad expands on this with a directory of Slack communities you can join.
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Ben Parr@benparr · Co-founder and CMO, Octane AI
@dougaitken @rrhoover They're also building a full social layer on top of Slack, you'll be able to see the other members, make profiles, a lot more with Hamster Pad soon.
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Doug Aitken@dougaitken · Web person
@benparr @rrhoover yea totally agree, explored it a bit now and I think the social layer is killer. Slackin is great for some use cases but this helps the social side of Slack, really helps communities
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Matt Schlicht@mattprd · Creator of Chatbots Magazine
@dougaitken @benparr @rrhoover Let us know what else you'd like to see on Hamster Pad. I think there are a TON of things we could do.
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Sam Doshi@samir_doshi · Co Founder @ Relayo.com
@rrhoover @stewart @buster @aunder Cool -- just found some communities
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