I enabled the chat plugin but I can’t set up the integration because I am not an admin on the Gitter room. I suspect either @r.w.bowman or @j.stirling are? Can one of you do it? Here are the instructions:
Done. I have it for first post and all replies for the Announcements, General, Request help, and Contributions topics. I don’t think site feedback needs to get through to Gitter. I like that gitter puts integration traffic in its own pane. Much nicer than some platforms (like slack) where the integration stuff just floods the chat window.
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Ah, easier to miss that way though. I normally keep that sidebar collapsed.
True, It is a trade off, do you remember when Joel put the GitHub integration into the LabThings Riot and it sent 50 messages a day that came through as full fledged messages?
Someone has enabled google calendars on a Slack I am in and it sends me provate messaged that trigger full notifications to tell me that my Google calendar is empty every day, because I don’t use google calendar. I can’t block the bot, and it seems to be on for all or off for all.
Striking a balance between being visible and not being annoying is hard. Slack seems to have solved this by not caring about being annoying.
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I added you as an admin as it’s useful anyway - though I guess this is now done…
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Do we want to remove the link to the Gitter and shut it down? We’ve missed a few quick questions that would have been good to have in the forum
Which gitter (can you link) are you looking at because I can’t see any messages. But I think we had a gitter for the old github repo and then a newer one for the GitLab. I can now only find one and there have been no messages for years.
Also I don’t think we can actually shut it down as it is just a hat. We can leave the chat but that may be worse…
The room is linked at the top of the forum, so even if we can’t shut it down we shouldn’t be advertising it there in my opinion
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Interesting! So we not only have a issue that we don’t use Gitter much. But also that there are multiple rooms!
We have
- #OpenFlexureProject_community:gitter.im - linked to at the top of this forum
- #OpenFlexure-Microscope_Lobby:gitter.im - linked to on the GitLab README
- #OpenFlexureProject_Fluorescence:gitter.im - maybe not linked anywhere anymore
Interestingly the handbook has no links to the forum (or the Gitter)
I think what is clear is we need to do a bit of an “audit” and check what is linking where on different public facing pages. Remove all links to the gitter rooms if we cannot close them. If we can’t close them, I wonder if we can make a bot that replies to each person telling them that the room is pretty much dead and directing them to the forum.
I have managed to get in as admin and check that all gitter rooms have a banner. And updated the one that had Richard’s face as the logo to have the project logo.
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