Hi all,
If like any of us who frequent the IRC channel and you have nothing better to do in your day job (cough), come have a chat on our new Slack channel.
Slack is rather nice for day to day chatting and socialising! 
You can sign up to Slack by following this link.
How exactly does one get an invite to the slack? The link you provided gives access to login, but doesnāt show an invite. Typically communities that want to invite people into their slack will provide an invite link, not just the front page login. Because thereās a chicken and egg problem that you canāt get in until you have an account. If you have an email address in the domain, thatās one way in, but people without those logins wonāt be able to get in. (like me).
Hi @popey,
The link above takes me to the sign up page - requesting your email address, name, and short description - this is what I see by following it:
@cylindric set this up to allow people to just āinvite themselvesā. What is it you see when you follow this link? I can send you a manual invite if you like, but Iām surprised that the one isnāt working - would be nice to fix it if other people are getting something different.
Chris
When I joined (30 Jan 2017) I just clicked on the the link in the 1st post (by following this link), got the login page shown above in @Jagmills post and signed up. Then received a āJoin Teamā email from Slack without issue and at the time I didnāt have a Slack account.
Maybe there is an issue with the email bot not sending out the āJoin Teamā invite.
Okay, I think I figured out the issue. I followed the link in the IRC topic, which links to https://shmakerspace.slack.com/ not https://shmakerspace.signup.team/ as per your link above. You should probably fix the link on IRC. Anyone going to IRC will get the āwrongā page and be unable to get in:-
I was expecting an āinviteā as other places do:-
Iāll try via your link instead. Thanks!
Thanks @popey, I have fixed the link on IRC.