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Can you see yourself offering a migration path off of Slack in the future? Your interface is much more accessible not just to Google, but also to this human. I would love to have an option to migrate off Slack with continuity.
This sounds like something that may interest you: https://zulip.com/help/web-public-streams
I love stuff like this. With so many communities congregating on Discord, Slack etc. we lose a lot of valuable information that would previously have been on something publicly searchable like StackOverflow. A lot of OSS has fallen into this pattern and it can be truly infuriating at times.
It's a bit of a negative comment but I sure wish these communities would rediscover forums. They're not all perfect but I am convinced that Discord and Slack are where valuable information goes to get mixed with gifs and memes then die. I guess that won't happen until someone starts hosting discourse for free. Awesome that Linen is trying to build a different future though.
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Is there anything similar for Discord?
Yes I am working on it actively I will have the version ready sometime this Friday. Discord has been taking longer than Slack since their API's isn't as intuitive and their threading model is a bit tricker since not everyone uses Discord threads. If you sign up on Linen.dev happy to reach out once Discord is ready to get some feedback.
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It's a bit of a negative comment but I sure wish these communities would rediscover forums. They're not all perfect but I am convinced that Discord and Slack are where valuable information goes to get mixed with gifs and memes then die. I guess that won't happen until someone starts hosting discourse for free. Awesome that Linen is trying to build a different future though.
Gitter is searchable. I wonder why it isn't popular.
That said, I'd worry about a chat solution being too focused on a small niche like developers (who often aren't that interested in paying for tools, even if they're high quality).
[0]: https://blog.gitter.im/2020/09/30/gitter-element-acquisition...
I love stuff like this. With so many communities congregating on Discord, Slack etc. we lose a lot of valuable information that would previously have been on something publicly searchable like StackOverflow. A lot of OSS has fallen into this pattern and it can be truly infuriating at times.
It's a bit of a negative comment but I sure wish these communities would rediscover forums. They're not all perfect but I am convinced that Discord and Slack are where valuable information goes to get mixed with gifs and memes then die. I guess that won't happen until someone starts hosting discourse for free. Awesome that Linen is trying to build a different future though.
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It's a bit of a negative comment but I sure wish these communities would rediscover forums. They're not all perfect but I am convinced that Discord and Slack are where valuable information goes to get mixed with gifs and memes then die. I guess that won't happen until someone starts hosting discourse for free. Awesome that Linen is trying to build a different future though.
Discourse is an absolute nightmare for searching though, it's painful and slow.
Congratulations on the launch! It looks helpful and easy to use. Two bits of feedback: 1. The threading seems off in places. I looked at the linked osquery site, and there were some top-level items that seemed like replies. Maybe that's just a result of people replying in a channel instead of a thread, though. 2. I see character entities in code sections, instead of their corresponding characters. For example, an XML…
1. Yes it's because someone posted the reply in the channel instead of a thread. I only sync threads at the moment. I have some plans on tweaking the UX to fix that issue and potentially some heuristics to figure out if it is talking about the same subject. 2. Oh good catch. We just rewrote our message rendering so there is some bugs we have to fix.
We used slackarchive before but it got disabled because of the ToS. The 10k message limit is specifically imposed by slack to get people to upgrade so they very much don’t want it subverted.