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Recommend geography-based channels to new members #60
Description
When a new user is greeted, given that we know their zip code, we can recommend #city/#state Slack channels to them via a DM from the bot - without needing a human to make the recommendation.
I was actually wondering if we could make a user join a channel via the bot, but I am not sure if the API allows that.
We can just start with our biggest meetups now, as an MVP - NYC and Seattle.
- NYC: https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/cancer/registry/appendix/neighborhoods.htm
- Seattle:
98101, 98102, 98103, 98104, 98105, 98106, 98107, 98108, 98109, 98112, 98115, 98116, 98117, 98118, 98119, 98121, 98122, 98125, 98126, 98133, 98134, 98136, 98144, 98146, 98154, 98164, 98174, 98177, 98178, 98195, 98199
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AllenAnthes commentedon Jul 14, 2018
@hollomancer Looks like we can use channels.invite . If I remember correctly "inviting" essentially joins the channel for the user, no?
hollomancer commentedon Jul 15, 2018
Yep, pretty much. That seems like a good solution.
apex-omontgomery commentedon Jul 15, 2018
Blocked by backend integration. Need ability to get user information when they are registered. Alternative way is using the admin status to get the details (ip address and relate that to the locations). That is a route that I'm hesitant to do.
hollomancer commentedon Jul 15, 2018
Is there already a backend issue for that?
apex-omontgomery commentedon Jul 19, 2018
Yes, there's a few that are working on integration. The first step was to get the simple interface setup with the tables to give parity to how BE/ bot store emails and use that as a key. Once that was done a better connection was going to be looked at.