is it possible to use slackin now ? (legacy tokens are not supported by Slack anymore)

[StefanoSalsano]

Slack no longer support the use of legacy tokens and replaces them with Slack apps.
This was already mentioned in issue #412 :

It looks like you can still create legacy tokens until May 5th here: https://api.slack.com/legacy/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens

After legacy tokens are deprecated, it seems only Enterprise Slack teams will be able to use auto-invite flows/apps, because the admin.users.invite api method is restricted: https://api.slack.com/methods/admin.users.invite

is there a way to use slackin now ?

[dschinkel]

Looks like now you can just generate your own url to share

So slackin is dead because going to that generated url gives you essentially what slackin gave you
https://join.slack.com/t/wedotdd/shared_invite/zt-e6fv7idi-xJojTQxM6rmjUvMGPYbXmg

Now all you need to do is direct users to that instead.

[jordanvanbergen]

Looks like now you can just generate your own url to share

So slackin is dead because going to that generated url gives you essentially what slackin gave you
https://join.slack.com/t/wedotdd/shared_invite/zt-e6fv7idi-xJojTQxM6rmjUvMGPYbXmg

Now all you need to do is direct users to that instead.

Invite links will expire due to security reasons. So you have I think 30 days and you need to recreate the invite link again.

[dschinkel]

where are you seeing that? Just wondering how you know that since the above does not mention that.

[jordanvanbergen]

where are you seeing that? Just wondering how you know that since the above does not mention that.

[jordanvanbergen]

where is this even from? This tells me nothing. What I showed you was the actual slack workspace that said it's not going to expire!

This has changed:

And when you click share invite link:

So share invite links expire < 30 days.

[dschinkel]

Yea something's odd. One of my workspaces shows it's not going to expire but a new workspace I just created, the shared link in that one does say it expires. Now I'm really confused.

[dschinkel]

I'm attending the Slack call tomorrow where they talk about the roadmap. If I can I'll ask about it.

[jordanvanbergen]

I'm attending the Slack call tomorrow where they talk about the roadmap. If I can I'll ask about it.

It's possible ! I needed to deactive the link. Create a new one with a CUSTOM expire date and you can select never expire. So it's working with never expire.

[dschinkel]

ah ok that must be what I did different. Interesting.

[Lewiscowles1986]

They should still provision for this to work via oauth bot scopes

[jordanvanbergen]

They should still provision for this to work via oauth bot scopes

You say should. We can't make a legacy token any longer. So if someone knows how to setup a connection to the api that would be nice. Until then only not expiring invite links from within Slack itself are possilbe.

[Lewiscowles1986]

Yes that is the option I've gone for, archiving the fork of this repo

[Lewiscowles1986]

Long term will probably look for a chat software a bit more suited to needs

[dschinkel]

TBH, this is much easier (no offense to the creators) just using slack. Slackin required a server for what I can just now do via native slack.

[dschinkel]

I don't know what Slack is doing. Now it expires again in their latest build:

[sruti]

I was able to create a link that never expires today, not sure why the option exists for some and not others...

[dschinkel]

did you upgrade to the latest version of Slack? 4.8.0 took the option away

[dschinkel]

I opened basically a complaint on it here integrations/slack#1063

[sruti]

did you upgrade to the latest version of Slack? 4.8.0 took the option away

I used the webapp and not the desktop app, maybe that's the difference. I'm guessing I'm using the latest version.

[dschinkel]

Most people use the desktop client...

[slifty]

It appears that paid organizations can create invitations that never expire; free orgs have a 30 day expiration.

[softmarshmallow]

Is invitation link generation as api not requires enterprise version?, if so we can alt this project to generate it with cron job, redirect them on the existing ui.