Comment by politelemon
5 years ago
> Problem #2: Google can’t see inside chats
Search engines seem to do well with Gitter. It's very searchable and the search results lead to the exact timestamp where the discussion happened.
I used to find decent support for Apache Airflow this way. A while ago they voted to move to Slack, not for any good reasons but because it was the popular place to be; The Slack setup was invite-only so search engines couldn't index it, and it was one with limited message retention, about 30 days I think. Very disappointing.
And since Gitter is being turned into a frontend for Matrix, you might as well just have a Matrix room for your project. Or several rooms, grouped together in a "space".
I hate Gitter with a passion. It's indexed, but it's chat after all, meaning it's painful to read as there are multiple conversations going on, and whatever you're looking for needs to be extracted from below the noise floor.
It always keeps coming up in my search results but it's absolutely never been useful to me.