Too rapid polling/querying

[KrzysztofMadejski]

Why slackin is querying slack (I guess that is what happens) so often? Each 300-800ms? Each 5 mins would be totally enough. Isn't there any flag to configure it to happen less often?

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Mon Dec 10 2018 14:00:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) – Error: Too Many Requests
    at Request.callback (/srv/slackin/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:686:11)
    at /srv/slackin/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:868:18
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/srv/slackin/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/parsers/json.js:16:7)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:194:15)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1107:12)
    at process.internalTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:72:19)

[sntxrr]

@KrzysztofMadejski if you pass in --interval 300000 you can slow down how often it checks. See https://github.com/rauchg/slackin/blob/master/bin/slackin#L11

[KrzysztofMadejski]

Perfect! Thanks @sntxrr !

[loleg]

Setting the SLACK_INTERVAL environment variable to 300000 also solved the issue for me. It's a good workaround until #303 is merged, and might be good to add to the default vars if it persists.