Discourse and Slack (or other group chat apps like IRC, HipChat, Gitter, etc)

That got me thinking. (You may probably smell my mind’s overclocking burn from where you be, haha.)

My biggest problem–and the one thing preventing me from using Discourse–is lack of online presence, especially in regards to knowing the actions of other users engaged upon a specific topic.

I would rather not split my users between two apps.

However, to use Slack (or Mattermost or Rocket.Chat) as a tagging field, coordinator and “drawing board” discussion spot to create long-form topics…that sounds feasible.

With Hubot Rest API integration, it may make things less about two separate apps and more about using Slack as a “lobby” for the bigger discussion Discourse-side.

Thank you for posting this.

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