# \`/discourse post\` command hangs on "Loading the transcript..."

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-command-hangs-on-loading-the-transcript/180781>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** chat-integration\
**Created:** [February 22, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-command-hangs-on-loading-the-transcript/180781 "2021-02-22T19:00:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brad\_Wood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/brad_wood/32/204558_2.png) [@Brad\_Wood](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brad_Wood)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-command-hangs-on-loading-the-transcript/180781/3 "2021-02-22T21:38:24Z")

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@simon I think that may have been it! I’ll be honest, I’m a little confused by how the Slack app works. Since I was able to run `/discourse ...` commands in any Slack channel and the “App” seemed to be installed at a global level, it seemed I had “added” the app in every way necessary. However, when I explicitly `/invite` my discourse app user into another channel, it starts working!

```plaintext
/invite @Discourse 
/discourse post 20

```

What’s very annoying about this is that Slack doesn’t even show me that my @discourse user is in my channel after I add it. The number of users in the Slack UI does not change, and if I view all the members of the channel, my app user is not listed there. I suppose this is a deficiency of Slack itself, not Discourse.

It would be nice to not need to invite the discourse user into every Slack channel in my team (goodness knows, we have a ton of channels) but I assume this must be a Slack limitation for apps? Also, is there an enhancement we can add to the Discourse chat plugin to detect this issue and display a more useful error message?

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