The problem is that the secret needs to be typed, so everyone gets to see it.

I think the only way to fix this is to introduce a real admin role and have the first registered user become an admin. Or is there a way to tell Pongbot an admin command (a slash command?) without displaying it?

Is this still happening?

Somehow we got here:

And every time one of these accepts, it seems like they are accepting their own challenge.

I'd like to be able to challenge anyone, not a specific user. Currently this "problem" is solved by begging.

https://github.com/thmsmtylr/opal-pongbot/commit/e95fef536ad84dd4a4d46dcddec4d0e84c57770e
Was a bug, check whether it's fixed.

Considering it's the only model with a timestamp, it is handy to have if one would want to display a match log elsewhere using the API.

Have you thought about enabling cross-origin calls API calls at all?

I spent a little time tonight trying to use the Express CORS middleware, but for some reason kept failing. Have you thought about this at all, or do you have any suggestions? -- Thanks

I admit it won't be used often once everyone in my company signs up, but it would be fun for new hires, etc. to get an invite

Sweet bot, btw!

Someone issues a challenge and loser records. We receive confirmation from pongbot with "Match has been recorded, XXX defeated XXX."

However, neither of them can issue new challenge or be challenged again. Pongbot will say "Error: There's already an active challenge between XXX and XXX."

Is this a bug or is it intended that each player can only play once per "season"?

Thanks!

Quite simply done by adding a @ in places like this:
deferred.resolve({ message: c1 + ' has challenged @' + c2 + ' to a ping pong match!', challenge: challenge });

I have pongbot successfully configured on heroku at this address. But, it's currently only showing up as raw json. I'm a little new to running apps on heroku, and I'm wondering what I need to do to get the web view to show up with all the player data.

What am I missing? Thanks for your help, and for building this. It's awesome.

You should be able to pongbot challenge singles @dblock, with or without the @ sign, so that the user gets a notification.

I think I should be able to spell Infinity lowercase.

https://api.slack.com/bot-users

Wow, this is new to me. Didn't realize this was added back in December!

I think this would be very interesting to look into and implement.
It would make installation so much more easier, allow better bot customization, and opens the Real Time Messaging API for extra fun/functionality.

It would be neat to have pongbot randomly challenge someone else or to alert the channel that you want to play so that someone can accept

@andrewvy I just almost confused myself with the develop branch again. It's now behind master. Why don't we just nuke it and not accept PRs that would make master unstable?

Fork with a bunch of code.

cc: @JNpark

We also need to write API tests or nuke'em. Also good opportunity to review the vocabulary, rankings are really players and matches are really challenges. Maybe we should just call them that?

If we're going to be serious about an API, maybe it should have a Hypermedia layout.

If you propose a challenge, you should be able to cancel it.

I was "db", then I had enough of notifications for every database problem and became "dblock". Now pongbot doesn't know me :(

Hi there just setup your app with our Slack channel and get the following issue:

• Successfully registered! Welcome to the system, thmsmtylr.
• Successfully registered! Welcome to the system, jason.

"pongbot challenge single @jason"

• Could not find a player with that name. Have they registered?

DB:

[{"_id":"54f9314191ee2a0300766f38","user_name":"thmsmtylr","wins":0,"losses":0,"elo":0,"tau":0,"__v":0},{"_id":"54f9317691ee2a0300766f39","user_name":"jason","wins":0,"losses":0,"elo":0,"tau":0,"__v":0}]

Everything looks to be functioning correctly but I can't seem to get the challenge feature to work. Anything I'm overlooking here?

It seems like there's nothing built in to prevent accepting/declining challenges with yourself.

This means moving any player-specific code into the Player model (eg. findPlayer).

It would be cool to not hardcode some starting GIFs and just fetch random ones off the internet. :)

Not sure if there's any good GIF search APIs out there. Imgur's looks pretty bland.

Challenges should only live for a short period of time, if you challenge someone and they didn't reply within an hour, just expire it?

There should be a queue so that you can challenge the winner of the current match

[suggestion]
Hey guys, I was wondering there's anything built at the moment to automatically generate a challenge to any random person on slack on a given time. This would be nice to have!

Too much productive time is wasted every day trying to type someone's name ;)

This could have been: Can't find a player with such a name, did you mean 'dblock'?

Allow to retrieve all proposed challenges, all accepted, singles and doubles challenges.

Should this GIF be added? Attention, NSFW.

A fork with a bunch of changes.

The work is all cut out, beginning with https://github.com/andrewvy/slack-pongbot/blob/master/test/pong_tests.js.

Looking up users should probably be case-insensitive.

A fork with a bunch of changes, notably seasons. This is the one we use at Artsy.

cc: @ilyakava

We'd appreciate a mention of Pinpon in the deprecation notice as well. We're up and running for beta customers and will launch publicly soon.

It's the easiest way out there to get a ping pong bot going in Slack.

From ilyakava#23.

If you don't have a config.json file, I think it would be great to add in a setup phase when you first run pongbot. (Which would then create a config file.)

You could configure when seasons end (1 week / 2 weeks / etc.), configure your own pongbot webhook, placement matches, elo difficulty.. etc.

Here's a sequence where we end up with two challenges?!

How do I uninstall Pongbot from my Slack account?