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> * Lack of google visibility. Lots of good discussions will benefit the asker and a few people in the slack but no one in the future, searching for the same in
by emidln 8y ago
> * Lack of google visibility. Lots of good discussions will benefit the asker and a few people in the slack but no one in the future, searching for the same information.
> Lack of searching for the members. Once you get to 10k messages, you can't search the older ones. If you have a large slack, it doesn't take long to get there. And unless see company is willing to pony up thousands of dollars a month, those discussions are lost forever.
This is the default state on the old real-time communication medium, IRC. Communities can solve the problem on Slack the same was as on IRC, using accounts controlled by bots who log channel messages. If the bot then puts the logs somewhere Google can find, you have a record that can be Googled. This only happens for the public if somebody cares.
- scaryclam 8y agoYou actually can't do this with slack and be compliant with their TOS (https://slack.com/terms-of-service/api https://slack.com/terms-of-service/api): "Functionality. You may not use the Slack API to replicate or compete with core products or services offered by Slack. You acknowledge and agree that Slack has or may in the future offer products or services that are similar to your Application, and nothing will prevent Slack from doing so;" So any communities doing this can get their community shut down by slack at any time.