First time Poster alert into Slack

[Joe_F (Joe Farrar)]

I recently set up the slack app to update a slack channel when posts are made, kudos for making this easy!

What I want to now create is a channel that will ping when a user posts for the first time, has anyone achieved this?

Thanks Joe

[merefield (Robert)]

Take a look at this:

Slack Bot Construction Kit

Summary: it’s a Slack Bot integration construction kit. This is meant to provide a foundation to build a rich(er!) bot that can integrate with your Discourse and allow you to write simple Ruby to control your bot. It is somewhat experimental at this stage! If you want me to help you write a rich bot for a specific purpose, you can hire me, otherwise fork and have a go! NB There is an official tool for basic integration with Slack chat: Chatroom Integration Plugin (discourse-chat-integration…

It may need modernizing.