ER: Issue with Public Facing Slack Channel Links for Non members

[djbradleyii]

Emergent Requirement - Problem

Prospective members might have been attempting to join slack channels via public facing links. Since they aren't members they are unable to join.

Issue you discovered this emergent requirement in

• Unable to join Slack Engineering and #tdm-calculator channel  #5949

Date discovered

1/17/24

Did you have to do something temporarily

• YES
• NO

Who was involved

@bonniewolfe @djbradleyii @nelsonuprety1

What happens if this is not addressed

Prospective members might attempt to join these slack channels, but will be unable to due to the fact that they are not members resulting in a poor user experience. This might deter potential members from reaching out or associating with HackforLA.

Resources

Screen Shot of Community of Practice Slack link

• Slack link references (non-exhaustive list):
  • getting-started
  • communities-of-practice
  • tdm-calculator

Recommended Action Items

• Make a new issue
• Discuss with team
• Let a Team Lead know

Potential solutions [draft]

Make an issue to determine the technical feasibility of the below
if the issue is feasible, do we have to make unique pages, or can we do it dynamically. If we can do it dynamically, then go ahead and execute. If we need separate pages, write-up how it would work and make a template for making each page, then get sign-off by dev lead and product.

Using an Iframe, and deliver a page that says

The link below goes to a Slack channel inside Hack for LA's Slack Workspace

If you are a member of our community already, selecting the link below will take to the channel. 

If you are not yet a member of our community, please see our [Getting Started](https://www.hackforla.org/getting-started) page to join.

and then has a unique link for the team's slack link they just clicked on

[INSERT TEAM SLACK LINK NAME or CoP NAME THAT WILL LINK TO TEAM/CoP SLACK LINK THAT YOU JUST CAME FROM]

Add this resource to the issue and whatever resources from above that are applicable.

Resources

• Here is a page where we use an iframe https://github.com/hackforla/website/blob/gh-pages/pages/dashboard.html