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Really not a fan of the name – why name it BotKit when you know that the most popular framework is also called Botkit?

Yes, was discussing the same with Botkit founder as well. Will change the name asap.

Inspired so much that you stole the name? That's embarrassing.

Yes, will change the name soon. Please suggest a good one. Was thinking of BotGear.

How about JBot? You could call him/her Jay for short.

Yes, JBot seems cool :)

I really liked JBot and was thinking of renaming it now and here's what I found: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=JBot

:D Surprising

I like JBot...

Other options: bot4j J4bot Botsdk (pronounced botstick) Bot devkit Chatbot kit Botlib

> Botsdk (pronounced botstick)

These kinds of things never work, people rarely pick up non-obvious pronunciations or abbreviations (look at nginx, SQL, or npm). So don't get too attached to the idea.

SlackerJack?

This framework will also be for facebook and twitter. So, a universal name would be great :)

HackerJack?

No need to dwell on what is a pretty generic name after all.

"stole"? Come on it's a generic name anyone might come up with. Dial back the rage for a night.

Guys, from the feedback of many developers, I have renamed the project from BotKit to JBot.

Thanks very much.

Links:

1) https://dzone.com/articles/make-slack-bots-in-java-in-minute...

2) https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/4vh01h/make_slack_bot...

Hello people,

Am very happy to see JBot listed on slack.com (https://api.slack.com/community)

Like it - though the FILE_SHARED example doesn't appear to work.

Thanks for letting me know. The example shown is incorrect as you can't reply to it. Because to reply you need to have a channel id in event object and slack doesn't send a channel id for file_shared event (https://api.slack.com/events/file_shared).

I will modify the example now. Thanks very much.

Example modified and released. Thanks once again for pointing this out.

Guys, are there any Hacker News badges for Github?

For example, I want to show points on it and refer to this page when someone clicks on the badge.

Seems cool :)

Thanks very much @staticelf

nah, I choose not to do this, or really anything else that I can avoid doing, in Java.

Any reasons behind this thought? Mentioning the same here would help.

Some other interesting java bots: http://www.sumve.com/ai-chatbots/music/edm/java-bots.html

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