Auto-Invite to Location Based Channels on Join

[operationcode]

Auto-Invite to Location Based Channels on Join

[aaron-junot]

Let's be very specific about which city or location is the first channel

[JudsonStevens]

I think a good first step here would be to have an inventory of the currently open regional channels. From a quick scan of public channels, this is what I have:

• Austin-TX
• Boston
• Chicago
• ClevelandOhioVets
• Colorado
• Columbus_Ohio
• DC
• Deleware
• Denver
• DFW
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hartford_Western_MA
• Indiana
• Kansas_City
• Kentucky
• Los-Angeles
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Michigan
• Nashville
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New-York
• North-Carolina
• NorthCarolina
• NYC
• OC-Midwest
• OC-Northeast
• OC-South
• OC-West
• Ohio
• Orlando
• Palo-Alto
• Pennsylvania
• Philly
• Phoenix-AZ
• Portland
• Raleigh
• Reno-Tahoe
• Sacramento
• San-Antonio
• San-Diego
• San-Francisco
• SanDiego
• Seattle
• Texas
• Utah
• Vegas

Now I don't believe this excludes archived channels, so some of them could be archived. I think we should have Alex take a look at these and see which ones are relatively active - maybe at least 5 messages in 3 months? That will give us an idea as to what we already have and where to funnel folks.

For current users, I think we could have the bot send a direct message to anyone not already in their regional channel - so essentially get the zip codes from our DB, parse them for all current users, and then send DMs for users not in those channels.

For future users, I think having an Airtable table set up to have regions and associated zip codes will allow us to place them where needed.