While on the topic: Have we considered alternatives like Gitter <http://gitter.im>? I'm not very familiar with Slack or Gitter, but Gitter advertises being a little friendlier to open invites.
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:38 AM Dan Halperin <dhalp...@google.com.invalid> wrote: > My understanding is that if you use something like that plugin, and they > detect it, Slack will ban you from new invites entirely or otherwise punish > you. They want this friction for free projects so that there's pressure to > pay. > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Jesse Anderson <je...@bigdatainstitute.io> > wrote: > > > Is possible to change how Slack invites are handled? This might encourage > > our community contributions. > > > > Right now, people have to email in (causing extra dev@/user@ emails). I > > did > > a quick search and found this <https://github.com/rauchg/slackin> so > > people > > can invite themselves. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jesse > > -- > > Thanks, > > > > Jesse > > >
