Bot Users
Slack provides tighter integration for bots like hubot and calls it Bot Users. Slack's documentation describes it in depth: https://api.slack.com/bot-users
For example, one of the most import advantages is talking to the bot in a private manner (direct message).
It would be great if Mattermost provided this.
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Thank you for nominating the feature! It is now available in Mattermost 5.12. Would anyone like to help re-tweet the announcement? https://twitter.com/Mattermost/status/1140597979985993728
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Anonymous commented
Anybody tell me how to integrate chat boat with mattermost
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Anonymous commented
+1
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Petar commented
hubot-matteruser still requires creating a user which in turn will hold all these messages so there is a known username/password that has to be provided and can be used later by someone to read all user messages making it less private than expected
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Eliot Berriot commented
I agree, this is really important, especially when you have some slash commands / webhooks that produce outputs and you don't want to share with everybody in a channel.
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Lee Theobald commented
I certainly would like to see this feature and could try and help out with the coding if needs be. I would need to learn Go and potentially React as I went along but that's no bad thing.
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Thanos Kyritsis commented
Talking in private with the bot is provided by this new project: https://github.com/loafoe/hubot-matteruser. I can leave this suggestion here if there is interest to implement/mimick slack's bot-users API in the future.