Re: Broken slack links

Jeremy, Bobby, et al. —

I just ran into this myself, and although the Heroku Slack-invite link is
not visible from the main communities section of postgresql.org (
https://www.postgresql.org/community/) it's still visible when viewing
mailing-list messages from the archives e.g. (
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b3950236-359e-64de-1874-74f285f8a493@ardentperf.com
— archive link from this thread). It's also still visible from the main
mailing list page (https://www.postgresql.org/list/) In a way this is good
because it led me to this message chain, but folks who are newer to the
Postgres community might not go and hunt through the listserv archives.

While I'm at it, it might or might not make sense to set the IRC channel
topic to indicate there's a Slack; looks like there's almost infinitely
more activity in Slack these days.

- Patrick

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 11:39 AM Jeremy Schneider <schneider(at)ardentperf(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 6/6/23 9:41 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 5:31 PM Bobby R. Ward <bobbyrward(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> This was brought up previously in January but the invite links to slack
> are broken.
> >> The links were previously replaced with links that require a
> pgtreats.info email to join.
> >> Afaik there is no way currently to join that workspace.
> >
> > Yeah, that's pretty bad.
> >
> > I've temporarily pushed a change that comments out the links. Better
> > no links than broken links. We'll get them back up as soon as the
> > slack people can get that fixed, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to
> > be a high priority for them.
>
> Sorry. We've been working on this; it's not just that Heroku stopped
> their free tier, but also that slack made changes to their api and to
> how they manage invites.
>
> From Robert around the end of last month (on slack):
>
> =====
> The heroku page had one of those auto-signup apps, but those no longer
> work with free slacks due to api changes. What replaced it was an
> evolving set of invite functionality, which has mostly become a direct
> invite link... that said since we've been bitten by changes to the
> invite system a few times now, we've tucked the slack link behind a more
> stable url, specifically https://pgtreats.info/slack-invite, which we
> can update to point to wherever it needs to go should the need change in
> the future. I was talking with Denish about the status of the old heroku
> account and it seems that it has been deleted (due to changes in how
> heroku does account management now). I think we might actually be able
> to revive it, though we would need to set up a paid heroku account to do
> it, and I think the only purpose would be to put up a static page
> telling people to update their links. Unfortunately we don't have a way
> to measure the value of that.
> =====
>
> Long story short: unless we want to set up a redirect right on
> postgresql.org and give slack admins direct access to keep it updated,
> the best solution right now is to just update all links to Robert's
> redirect which should be more stable (and usable) than long unreadable
> slack invite links.
>
> http://pgtreats.info/slack-invite
>
> I once heard a report that slack was still giving a confusing message
> claiming you needed a pgtreats.info email to join, which is not true.
> But that may have been with one of the older invite links.
>
> The link above has been around for at least a couple weeks now and
> should work with any email. I think it's safe to update postgresql.org
> links to point here.
>
> If anyone is interesting in connecting on slack then please do continue
> to report issues back to slack admins (and I'm happy to help pass info
> along)... I like hanging out on slack but who knows if they might make
> more breaking changes that catch us PG folks off guard...
>
> -Jeremy
>
>
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