Opened 3 years ago
Last modified 2 months ago
#6793 new enhancement
Link Slack username to user DMs
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Description
As Slack has moved away from usernames, if multiple users have the same name it can be difficult determining which user is linked to which WordPress.org profile. For example searching the user "John" shows multiple accounts with the same details.
On WordPress.org profiles, it would be handy if the Slack username could be linked to the user's DMs. The URL form is https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/C024MFP4Q/team/<user id>.
This came up recently when I needed to DM a number of people in a certain channel and had trouble figuring out who was who in a couple of cases.
The one risk I see is that it may increase Slack spam.
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2 months ago
This is a little hard to do.. as we have a combined format:
@dd32 on WordPress.org and Slack
@dd32 on WordPress.org, @Dion on Slack
"Slack" links to make.wordpress.org/chat, I could change that to link to the slack user, which now that we have SSO with Slack might be OK. Still could be a bit jaring to anyone who doesn't understand what Slack is though.
Any thoughts?
I doubt it will, and if it does, slack spam is not appreciated.. accounts do (and have) been deactivated for this.