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Comment by cheeseblubber

3 years ago

This is one of the reasons I created Linen.dev(A Google searchable Slack/Discord alternative) I had a decent size Slack and Discord community for my previous project and it became a blackhole of information.

You can check it out the repo here: https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev

Linen.dev/s/cypress slack-chats.kotlinlang.org

You can also google: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinen.dev to see the conversations that has been indexed

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bostonvaulter2  3 years ago

I wish the `@mention` `!mention` distinction become more widely used. I'm looking forward to checking out Linen once I find a group using it.

  • kevincox  3 years ago

    +1

    I often like to tag people so that it is unambiguous which "Alex" I am referring to and avoids me misspelling the names. But often I don't need to bother people. It would be nice if I could link to the user without notifying them.

iFreilicht  3 years ago

Quick note: On your website, there's this metric:

> Our largest community has seen over 180,0000 Google impressions

Is that 180,000 or 1,800,000?

Apart from that, it looks really good! As I understand it, you actually cache all those conversations, right? So basically, it's like mailing-list archives, but for discord and slack; even if the servers go down or get closed or threads are deleted or move somewhere else, the content on your site stays up?