Slack Robot Manager

Slack Robot Manager

Manage Robots in Slack

Slack Robot Manager
What is Slack Robot Manager?
Slack Robot Manager is a Chrome extension that allows you to toggle messages from robots in Slack. It adds a convenient toggle button in the channel's navigation, enabling you to hide or show robot messages in the current channel. This extension offers customization options and can be locally installed for experimenting with robot detection rules. However, it has a known issue of reflowing the current channel when hiding robot messages, potentially causing scrolling difficulties in channels with numerous robot messages.
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Stats
Users: 6
Version: 0.3 (Last updated: 2020-02-24)
Creation date: 2020-02-24
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 62.02K
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Summary

This extension allows you to toggle messages from robots in slack. It adds a toggle to the channel's navigation buttons to either hide or show messages from robots in the current channel.

Customization:

  • The source for this extension can be found at https://github.com/laffra/srm.
  • You can find instructions there how to install the extension locally, so you can experiment with the robot detection rules yourself.

Known issues:

  • When this extensions hides robot messages from the current channel, the slack app reacts to it by reflowing the current channel. This results is some yank. When a channel contains a lot of robot messages, this starts to make it hard to scroll backwards.
Safety
Risk impact

Slack Robot Manager is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Slack Robot Manager has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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