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    "result": {"data":{"blogPost":{"title":"Connecting a Slack Channel to Gitter","slug":"/blog/2018-04-30-connecting-a-slack-channel-to-gitter/","authorNodes":[{"name":"Robert DeLuca","slug":"/people/robert-deluca/"}],"markdown":{"html":"<p>Slack communities for open source projects have become very popular\nover the past of couple years. Slack has taken hold because it makes\ncollaborative chat really easy and accessible for the\nmasses, something IRC wasn’t able to achieve.</p>\n<p>Slack is amazing for teams working together but there are\ndownsides to using it for open source communities. One of those\ndownsides is they’re closed off to search engines. When someone\ngets help with an issue it’s forgotten about. Another issue is that\nthey are usually free Slack communities, which means they have limited\narchives. Once the limit is reached, messages are deleted.</p>\n<p>Recently we have started looking into ways to make sure we’re available to\nthe community for our open source projects. One of the ideas\nwas to have Slack channels where we could collaborate with the\ncommunity, but considering the limitations stated above, we couldn’t\npick Slack.</p>\n<p>In our search for something with Slack-like qualities, we found\n<a href=\"https://gitter.im/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gitter</a>, which checks pretty much all of the\nboxes! One problem though: we knew that if we had two different chat apps\nwe would end up forgetting about one (and it was going to be Gitter). If\nonly there were a way to combine them…</p>\n<h2 id=\"what-if-they-could-both-be-the-sameroom\" style=\"position:relative;\"><a href=\"#what-if-they-could-both-be-the-sameroom\" aria-label=\"what if they could both be the sameroom permalink\" class=\"anchor before\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" height=\"16\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 16 16\" width=\"16\"><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z\"></path></svg></a>What if they could both be the Sameroom?</h2>\n<p>There’s a service out there that allows you to connect one chat app to\nanother called <a href=\"https://sameroom.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Sameroom</a> (see what I did there?\n(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞). We decided to give it a shot and, I have to say, it’s pretty\ndamn neat. We connected our internal open source Slack channels to the\nGitter chatrooms we set up. Now we will get messages posted in our\nSlack channel whenever someone posts in our Gitter chatroom.</p>\n<p>We decided to only have the chat go one way. The internal Slack chat\nwon’t post to Gitter because we’re not crazy about the way it\nintegrates. Every post in our Slack channel comes from Sameroom bot in\nthe Gitter chat. If it was easier to distinguish <em>who</em> those posts\nwere coming from we’d absolutely enable it. <a href=\"https://sameroom.io/blog/introducing-bridgebots/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gitter covers this\nlimitation in this blog\npost.</a></p>\n<p>Other than that one issue, this integration seems to work pretty well!\nWe’ve set it up for two of our projects and are looking to add more in\nthe future. Come chat with us in the\n<a href=\"https://gitter.im/thefrontside/frontmacs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Frontmacs</a> or\n<a href=\"https://gitter.im/thefrontside/bigtest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BigTest</a> Gitter!</p>","frontmatter":{"date":"April 30, 2018","description":"Slack communities for open source projects have become very popular over the past couple years. Slack has taken hold because it makes collaborative chat really easy and accessible for the masses. Something IRC wasn’t able to achieve.","tags":["open source","community","collaboration","slack","gitter"],"img":null}}}},"pageContext":{"id":"65baac1a-dd9a-524b-9dfb-4c80bd6adfa2"}},
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