Loomio

Slack integration - Feedback and ideas

Z Zukero Public Seen by 66

Hello everyone. I am fairly new to Loomio, as I proposed it to my team (a handful of international volunteers) only last week.
We already use Slack and love it. Loomio looks like a nice complement to it, and we're testing it these days. Obviously, as Slack is the centerpiece of our communications, I set up the Loomio app for Slack.

It is proving useful, but lacks a lot to blend smoothly with our workflow.
Ideally, we'd love for the LoomioBot to be our main way (almost only way) to interact with the Loomio backend, piloting almost everything from Slack, turning to loomio.org only as an archive reference.

First, what's great:
- The reminders about polls closing in 24hrs. It really helps when procrastinating about something.
- The in-line voting buttons, even though when a poll has too many options, they don't all show up, and nothing shows that there are more.

Second, I'd love to create a decision or thread from any channel, and have that channel linked to the decision or thread.
For now, the bot is linked to a single channel, and all Loomio interaction have to happen on that channel( #loomio in our case), meaning we have to move back and forth between channels.
When we discuss a new feature in the channel #featureX, it'd be great to just call "/loomio poll What is your opinion on featureX ?", and get to vote directly in the channel, and add comments to the (Loomio) poll by starting a (Slack) thread from LoomioBot's message announcing the poll (or any message related to that poll actually).
LoomioBot would then remember that this decision or thread was started from Slack channel #featureX, and send all notifications related to that decision or thread in #featureX.

Last, it'd be nice to be able to query LoomioBot to retrieve a list of the threads and decisions, and to ask for the current status of the votes for a given decision.

I know resources are scarce, and that this might not be your top priority, or even your average priority, but I guessed I'd drop my 2 cents.

RG

Robert Guthrie Wed 12 Jun 2019 12:16AM

Thanks for your feedback @zukero. Great suggestions, we'll definitely take them onboard when we can next focus on the Slack integration