Announcing the Unofficial TBA Slack Bot Closed Beta

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by bdaroz

Thanks,

The bot uses hooks on both side of the Slack <-> Bot <-> TBA side to be a "good neighbor". On the Slack side that's their Event API, and Webhooks on TBA. In addition we added the basic TBA cache (If-Modified-Since) header and on top of that added an adjustable "don't even bother asking" cache to try to keep the calls to TBA somewhat reasonable.

Awesome! I always love to hear about cool uses people come up with for webhooks.

Thanks for trying to keep your API calls down also

[Sperkowsky]

I applied for the F4 slack. I had to fill in the form really oddly to make it work. Hopefully we get it on the slack soon it seems really cool.

[bdaroz]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

I applied for the F4 slack. I had to fill in the form really oddly to make it work. Hopefully we get it on the slack soon it seems really cool.

I saw that!

My first thought after, "There's a team 1?" was seeing the number of teams you'd like to follow.

We've got some great feedback from the first few testers and we're going to make some changes before we bring in the next set, perhaps mid-week.

[bdaroz]

Thanks everyone for your feedback, and eagerness to play with our Slack bot.

We have 7 teams live with the bot right now and have a good mix of public and private channels the bot is communicating with. In addition, a good number of teams have been subscribed to, so we're ready for testing this weekend.

We've quashed a few bugs along the way (uh teams, URLs have 2 slashes, not 3. That's at least a few dozen of you so far... and boy does Slack not like that....), and are working on getting feedback about some UX changes in the way some information is presented.

Once we know which way we're going to go with that, we'll be inviting our next batch of teams, perhaps as soon as tonight, if not tomorrow. If you requested to test before noon today (Eastern time) and listed an offseason event you'll be attending, you should receive an invite in the next round. If you didn't list an offseason event, and signed up before noon today, expect an invite after this weekend's offseason events.

If you signed up after noon today, don't despair, we just want to see how the weekend goes.