Show HN: Linen – Make your Slack community Google-searchable

Post by FionnMc » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 7:24 AM UTC

Post by robertlagrant » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 8:21 AM UTC

altairprime wrote: post #45

Ugh, this is a guaranteed way to drive me out of any service that uses this. If it’s your intent to create an unsafe environment, you’re succeeding admirably. Google indexing is the biggest contributor to making the web unsafe for communities, and I’ve been dreading someone coming up with this for years.

Post by reflexco » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 10:26 AM UTC

leros wrote: post #33

hardwaresofton wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I agree. I really dislike Slack and Discord compared to forums. Being able to keep a topic in a confined thread and then bump it to the top when there is activity is so useful. Slack does have threads but you never know about updates unless you're already chatting in the thread. Slack just feels like email before threads got grouped together. Don't get me wrong, Slack is a great chat tool for small groups and it's a…

Post by orhmeh09 » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 7:45 PM UTC

leros wrote: post #33

hardwaresofton wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I agree. I really dislike Slack and Discord compared to forums. Being able to keep a topic in a confined thread and then bump it to the top when there is activity is so useful. Slack does have threads but you never know about updates unless you're already chatting in the thread. Slack just feels like email before threads got grouped together. Don't get me wrong, Slack is a great chat tool for small groups and it's a…

Post by stayinrhythm » Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 3:21 PM UTC

cheeseblubber wrote: post #26

mellosouls wrote: post #24

How does this handle privacy? Assuming these Slack conversations were originally in private communities, I'm scratching my head a bit that they are now appearing in Google results. I'm guessing that essentially it is up to the Slack admin to ensure all participants have agreed to their conversations being made available to the world?

All of the communities on Linen right now are open to the public to join through a public url. Linen isn't designed for private communities right now unless it evolves to be more like a productivity too that helps with related questions, summarization and search. At the moment most people who come in to these Slack channels kind of treat it like Stackoverflow or customer support for technical tools.