Keep Your Team in Sync, Sign In With Slack
Today, our friends at Slack are releasing Sign in with Slack, a new set of APIs that apps can use to let users securely share their Slack credentials to log in and sign up.
As we’re always trying our best to keep up and make your team’s onboarding smoother than Smoothie, Kifi supports Sign in with Slack as of right now.
In your Slack settings, simply make sure to “allow team members to use their Slack accounts to log into other apps (Sign in with Slack)”.
For developers, we’re celebrating by open-sourcing our Slack client for Scala.
Since the launch of our Slack integration earlier this year, we used some duct tape to patch together the best 1-click registration experience we could, but we inevitably ran into issues with teams that had integrations turned off.
Now the new Sign in with Slack relies on a distinct set of permissions that do not count against a team’s integration restrictions. This is really good news for Slack teams whose admins do not allow members to install apps, or for open communities hitting integration limits. 👋 Product Manager HQ and fellow Slack Developers!
As long as someone on your team has made the decision to integrate with Kifi, any member can now use their Slack account to join the party and get onto the good stuff.
Kifi is continuously organizing the content shared in your Slack team, so you can:
- Search for shared links with full text indexing, even from Google.
- Send page snippets to Slack, from anywhere on the web.
- Have threaded conversations, even across multiple channels and teams.
If no one on your team has made the smooth decision to integrate yet, you can automatically set up your team and channels, in just a couple of clicks.
This, of course, still requires classic app permissions.
From there, to get your team on the same page, just Sign in with Slack. 😼
