{"id":210050,"date":"2017-05-10T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=210050"},"modified":"2017-05-10T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:52:38","slug":"slack-rejects-feeld-bot-for-work-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/210050-slack-rejects-feeld-bot-for-work-dating.html","title":{"rendered":"Slack rejects Feeld bot for work dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slack has rejected the bot for dating app Feeld from its platform, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/05\/slack-doesnt-want-people-using-it-for-romance\/525975\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Atlantic reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Feeld&#8217;s bot would alert users who\u00a0expressed a\u00a0mutual romantic interest in each other.<\/p>\n<p>Feeld claims that the bot would make organisations more human\u00a0through encouraging staff not to hide their crushes at work.<\/p>\n<p>However, Slack was not convinced and has decided not to list the Feeld bot\u00a0in its app\u00a0directory, citing its developer policy.<\/p>\n<p>The policy states that it will remove apps it considers\u00a0to be inappropriate for use in the workplace, or which negatively impact the user experience on Slack.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/195098-threaded-messaging-comes-to-slack.html\">Threaded messaging comes to Slack<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slack has rejected the bot for dating app Feeld from its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[43076,36922],"class_list":["post-210050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-feeld","tag-slack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210088,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210050\/revisions\/210088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}