Our Discourse instance is private and we use the discourse-slackdoor plugin to allow Slack to unfurl the contents of posts that are shared in our private Slack. But Slack still tries to do it’s own unfurling of the links, which is kind of annoying because all it is able to get is the site title and…

[image] codinghorror: Why is this being reported here when it is a Slack question? It’s a Slack<->Discourse question. I am guessing others that use Slack and Discourse might have a similar question, so if we come up with a good answer here, it’ll be helpful to this community. [image] cod…

I’m not sure if you’re already aware of this option - apologies if so. [image] Discourse Slackdoor Plugin When you post a message that starts with a link to a post or a topic in your private Discourse instance, a bot will post a message that contains the unfurled content as a reply. The Slack…

I wonder if that’s new. I asked Slack about this a while back and I don’t think they had this option back then. I’ll check it out! Do you think it’d make sense to keep this as a separate plugin or integrate it into the chat-integration plugin?

The changelog suggests it was added in March, so yeah fairly recent. In my opinion it would probably be better to keep it separate. The very nature of it (providing a backdoor to a discourse instance) is a potential security risk if not handled correctly, so it’s probably better that it’s only inst…

Prevent Slack from unfurling anything for login-required sites

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) December 2, 2017, 9:02pm 2

You can tell Slack to permanently stop unfurling any links from that domain. Why is this being reported here when it is a Slack question?

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Prevent Slack from unfurling anything for login-required sites

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