Slack Developer Blog
medium.com/slack-developer-blog · Company blog · on HN since 2015
Slack Developer Blog is Slack's Medium publication with announcements and guides for building bots, apps, and integrations on its platform.
What HN saysHN links it for platform announcements and guides, including a link unfurling article commenters point to for making site previews work.
38HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
34stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1How to write a good Slack site preview6 people · 7 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 2The Slack Platform Roadmap3 people · 53 points · first shared 2016 · 16 comments on HN
- 3Slack /Launch Platform (Developer Announcement)3 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 4“Serverless” Slack Bot in 9 Minutes with Node.js and StdLib2 people · 6 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 5Introducing Sign in with Slack2 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Standard Practice: Building an OpenAPI 2.0 Spec for the Slack Web API2 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 7We built a bot for anomalies2 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8Slack App Kit2 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 9Investing in the Future of Work2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 10Message buttons and the Slack API2 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 11Slack ending support for TLS 1.0 and 1.11 people · 6 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 12Slack on Slack: Delivering impactful internal products1 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 13Building a Slack Bot Using Cloudflare Workers1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 14Slack shares tools to help developers build for new enterprise product1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15ToDoBot was built in three days1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
charliepark · 2019-12-17
Assuming you have some sort of control over the root index.html file, write the appropriate `meta` tags in the header there. This article is old, but has a good, illustrated view of what tags do what. https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-…
llimllib · 2019-09-07
Suggestion: enable a website preview! https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-…
I shared your link in a chat, but it doesn't show itself off: https://i.imgur.com/r5hTqwG.png
(Got good suggestions from the first book I put in, thanks!)
sushimako · 2017-09-15
If I read this correctly, the "Enterprise Grid" section hints at one technical reason for this move. Slack recently announced[0] a new feature that allows multiple teams, err "Workspaces", to share a channel. This violates the uniqueness of @usernames within the namespace of the shared channel, e.g. both teams having a "@john".
This announcement anticipates (a) getting developers to use surrogate UIDs instead of @username for mentions, and (b) that their clients will only use display names in the future and rely on specific UI elements to distinguish ambiguous ones.
[0] https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/network-effects-getting-ready-…
f00_ · 2017-06-02
This is similar to statsbot.co 's Slack bot
You would message the bot something like "sessions for this month", and it would send back a graph.
wonder if you could make a similar bot with google sheets if they provide an api
https://statsbot.co/slack
https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/bots-you-can-count-on-meet-the…
ultrasaurus · 2016-06-21
More details on their developer blog: https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/message-buttons-and-the-slack-…
spdustin · 2015-12-16
Their dev blog post [0] mentions an AWS Lambda Blueprint to go along with a chatbot framework (BotKit) and an "Add to Slack" workflow. This (AWS Lambda) is a smart move; it reduces the friction of writing a quick integration with Slack considerably, making it almost a commodity-level feature. This bet on AWS Lambda will likely be a big deal for general AWS Lambda adoption, given how insanely popular Slack integrations are.
[0]: https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/launch-platform-114754258b91#.…