Qiskit-terra: Invitation link to Slack is missing

[tbabej]

The README page mentions the slack channel https://qiskit.slack.com, but does not provide an actual invitation link to join. This turns out to be a hard gem to find on the internet, as invitation links eventually expire. All of the following blog posts contain expired Slack invitation links:

https://medium.com/qiskit/qiskit-turns-one-looking-back-cbc2c48d7a95
https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/2018/09/07/join-quantum-community/

[atilag]

Hi @tbabej!
qiskit.org should always have a valid invitation link.
I think we might want to link to the front-page in future articles, instead of just putting a link in there.

Thanks for reporting!

[tbabej]

Thanks for pointing that out @atilag !

However, the link on the qiskit.org is inactive too, unfortunately.

[1ucian0]

Confirmed. I created https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit.org/issues/56 for updating the web. This issue for updating the documentation.

[1ucian0]

The link to the invitation without expiration is:

https://join.slack.com/t/qiskit/shared_invite/enQtNDc2NjUzMjE4Mzc0LTMwZmE0YTM4ZThiNGJmODkzN2Y2NTNlMDIwYWNjYzA2ZmM1YTRlZGQ3OGM0NjcwMjZkZGE0MTA4MGQ1ZTVmYzk

[atilag]

https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit.org/pull/57 has been merged. Closing this issue.
Thanks @tbabej and @1ucian0 !

[1ucian0]

Re-opeining, so the link in the README file of the repo is also updated.

[1ucian0]

fixed in pending PR: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-terra/pull/1254/commits/509312d3b71263b72834cf3be7f95d30fa6f87c2

[1ucian0]

Fixed in #1254. Thanks @tbabej !

[vaibhavsingh1993]

The link to the invitation without expiration is:

https://join.slack.com/t/qiskit/shared_invite/enQtNDc2NjUzMjE4Mzc0LTMwZmE0YTM4ZThiNGJmODkzN2Y2NTNlMDIwYWNjYzA2ZmM1YTRlZGQ3OGM0NjcwMjZkZGE0MTA4MGQ1ZTVmYzk

Seems like the link is dead again :(

[shahzebanwar]

Do we have an active link to join the channel?

[1ucian0]

This one should be always updated
https://ibm.co/joinqiskitslack