Welcome!
This is the community forum for my apps Pythonista and Editorial.
For individual support questions, you can also send an email. If you have a very short question or just want to say hello — I'm @olemoritz on Twitter.
Pythonista IRC channel
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I registered the channels #pythonista and ##pythonista on Freenode, so come by and chat.
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Great idea! Though I actually would prefer a Slack channel instead of IRC - that way we can have a history (without needing to set up bouncers etc.). Also Slack is much more noob friendly - just signup and go - so it's more conducive for growing a community.
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@hyshai What is the process to get my email address added to https://pythonista.slack.com ?
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Actually, my friends and I have begun using discord as an alternative to IRC, just for chatting, and I really like it. It advertises as "chat for gamers," but I've happily used it just as a platform for chat in general. I don't know how other people feel about this.
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@ccc I'm not sure that the https://pythonista.slack.com team is related to the app. I may be wrong, but I couldn't find any mention of someone setting up a slack team for the app in the forum, so that URL probably points to a different group of people. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.) Someone would need to register a pythonista-app (or something similar) team with slack (since you can't reuse team names and all).
I use slack at work and think it'd work great for the community here, but it is more of a closed system, requiring an invitation to join a team. Of course, anyone who wanted access could request it here and the admins/owners of the slack team (@omz and some other people probably) could send them an invite. I think it can be opened up where anyone can send invitations, but don't quote me on that.
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I created https://pythonista-app.slack.com/ an I invited a handful of folks from this forum that I have email addresses for but I have to say, I am unimpressed with the way slack works. It wants acces to all my contacts and does not support oauth to things like Google+, Facebook, etc. Many of the comments from the blog post that @Ivoah provided above now make sense to me. Slack seems closed source and focused on supporting internal teams within a company.
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@ccc You are right that slack was built with internal company teams in mind.
Maybe we have different ideas of how slack would work for the community here. I see it as a way for more of the regular Pythonista users to chat and collaborate about the app or larger projects they are working on before sharing it on the forum where everyone can view it.
Of courses, the admin will be generous with inviting new users, but it won't be completely open to the public.
I also agree with you that it would be nice to use a google login with slack, but I can see why they chose not to include it, with users able to be a part of multiple teams. I think one of the paid versions lets you use a Google Apps account, but that's a different story.
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@ccc The app only requests access to your contacts in order to let you invite people in your contacts list to the new team. It's a fairly standard practice for chat applications.
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The app would not allow me to paste in an email address in an attempt to force me to give it access to all of my contacts and now it asks for access to all of my contacts every time I open it.
I could add you or anyone else who wants to the Slack team but you would need to publish your email address in a public way (Pythonista forum profile) or find mine. Just seems a bit primitive in this day and age when Twitter and all the others support oauth.
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@ccc I'm not sure why it is forcing to give access to all your contacts. I don't allow it access to mine and it never asks. I am running the beta app (I assume we are talking iOS), so maybe it's a bug they have fixed.
My email is [...] if you could add me to the slack team. (I will either edit or remove this post after I'm added, thanks.)
Also, if you could make me an admin, I will set up this app on heroku so that people don't have to post their emails publicly and anyone can join the team.
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I've been looking around for an alternative to slack and found Rocket Chat. I've created an instance on heroku (to test) and enabled Github and Twitter logins. Also, anyone can join without an invitation.
Join here: https://pythonista-chat.herokuapp.com/
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I see it as a way for more of the regular Pythonista users to chat and collaborate about the app or larger projects they are working on before sharing it on the forum where everyone can view it.
I like this idea. The one reason I like slack over RocketChat is the push notifications (which id love to have on this forum)
If you'd like to host it somewhere other than heroku, I can certainly put it on my personal web server. However, the heroku.com extension is probably much easier to remember than the deentaylor.com extension 🙃
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It just occurred to me I have no idea how to send a private message here.... or on github @ccc I'd rather not post my email address on a public forum....
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@Webmaster4o supposedly the rocket chat mobile apps have push notifications. Haven't tested this yet though.
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Just a reminder that I'm lonely in #pythonista :(
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I'm in there :) it's warm, come in guys!
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by the way in case you're looking for irc clients I suggest Limechat on mac.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/limechat/id414030210?mt=12and Palaver on iOS (https://palaverapp.com)
