Regarding: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-slack-official I have the plugin setup. However it is sending topics and replies from staff categories into the designated Slack channel. This, obviously presents an issue regarding privilege - I doubt this is intentional, so is there a work-arou…

@nick should answer more specifically, but I think the correct way to handle this, is to make sure the user Slack is posting on behalf of, is not a staff user?

[image] codinghorror: make sure the user Slack is posting on behalf of, is not a staff user? This is the only way the plugin currently has built in. The plugin setting is “slack discourse username”

I think there is still an issue here. When you do: /discourse status It (correctly) only displays categories that the slack_discourse_username can see: Here are your available categories: a, b, c But if you do /discourse watch all And then create a post in the staff category, it gets posted t…

Do you mean /discourse watch all command posting topics of categories which are unavailable?

I’m looking forward to encouraging more people to use the plugin in their own channels now that they can subscribe to particular tags , but concerned that this issue leaves the door open for people to access categories that staff on the site assume are private. @vinothkannans after all your work to …

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-slack-official/pull/29 I created a PR for this. I hope it will this fix issue completely. Can you please look at the code?

@vinothkannans and @tgxworld , from the comments on the PR, I’m having trouble understanding who is waiting for whom to make the next move.

As I told in PR I will do the needful soon. Edit: @mcwumbly PR updated :thumbsup:

Slack (official plugin) sending topics from staff categories

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mcwumbly (Dave McClure) April 19, 2017, 1:50pm 11

Thanks! this is now working great.

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