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Browse Kotlin Slack conversations without joining Slack

12 points by cheeseblubber 4y ago

mdaniel 4y ago
I thought maybe it was something JetBrains made, as that strikes me as something they'd do, but no: > Powered by Linen (https://www.linen.dev https://www.linen.dev) > Linen syncs all your threads in your public channels and threads to linen.dev/s/your_slack_workspace_name. This makes your Slack/Discord contents available for your community members without requiring a login. It looks like it's opt-in (which I guess is to be expected) since this is 404: https://www.linen.dev/s/kubernetes https://www.linen.dev/s/kubernetes
yunohn 4y ago
How does Linen.dev make money? This is a simple feature that Slack/Discord could launch any day.
- Mandatum 4y ago
  Funded by YC right now. > Linen is free to use and get setup but I offer a paid version (I am still figuring out the pricing model for it) where you can get the content redirected to your own subdomain where your domain gets all the SEO benefits. From their launch. No concrete plans, seems like YC seems some possibility with "extracting information from private communities and making it public".. https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/64247 https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/64247 I can see this being a $10/mo product run on a tiny EC2 box being used by 1000's of communities with minimal support and operational costs. I doubt they need more than $500K to fund this, and I'm surprised they got that much for it as it is. But I guess folks get funded from PDF's so.. Seems like Linen.dev got lucky before the purse strings started getting tighter.
  - yunohn 4y ago
    Agreed, this makes no sense. Slack and Discord could open up their public chats for indexing any day of the week, and forgo logins if they wished. It’s a monetisation strategy, not a technical limitation. As soon as Linen gets enough traction, they will be obsoleted.
RedSubdo 4y ago
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dizhn 4y ago
Zulip supports this natively.

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Browse Kotlin Slack conversations without joining Slack

12 points by cheeseblubber 4y ago

mdaniel 4y ago
I thought maybe it was something JetBrains made, as that strikes me as something they'd do, but no: > Powered by Linen (https://www.linen.dev https://www.linen.dev) > Linen syncs all your threads in your public channels and threads to linen.dev/s/your_slack_workspace_name. This makes your Slack/Discord contents available for your community members without requiring a login. It looks like it's opt-in (which I guess is to be expected) since this is 404: https://www.linen.dev/s/kubernetes https://www.linen.dev/s/kubernetes
yunohn 4y ago
How does Linen.dev make money? This is a simple feature that Slack/Discord could launch any day.
- Mandatum 4y ago
  Funded by YC right now. > Linen is free to use and get setup but I offer a paid version (I am still figuring out the pricing model for it) where you can get the content redirected to your own subdomain where your domain gets all the SEO benefits. From their launch. No concrete plans, seems like YC seems some possibility with "extracting information from private communities and making it public".. https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/64247 https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/64247 I can see this being a $10/mo product run on a tiny EC2 box being used by 1000's of communities with minimal support and operational costs. I doubt they need more than $500K to fund this, and I'm surprised they got that much for it as it is. But I guess folks get funded from PDF's so.. Seems like Linen.dev got lucky before the purse strings started getting tighter.
  - yunohn 4y ago
    Agreed, this makes no sense. Slack and Discord could open up their public chats for indexing any day of the week, and forgo logins if they wished. It’s a monetisation strategy, not a technical limitation. As soon as Linen gets enough traction, they will be obsoleted.
RedSubdo 4y ago
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dizhn 4y ago
Zulip supports this natively.