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To clarify Zulip let's you export their conversations and then render it by generating a static HTMl similar to https://leanprover-community.github.io/archive/

To clarify Zulip let's you export their conversations and then render it by generating a static HTMl similar to https://leanprover-community.github.io/archive/ https://leanprover-community.github.io/archive/ You'd have to use https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive to achieve. You can see it in the Caveats sections in their documentation https://zulip.com/help/public-access-option#caveats https://zulip.com/help/public-access-option#caveats They are working on it here: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/21881 https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/21881 Zulip lets you browse conversations of public conversations but that is very different than the app being natively search engine friendly and indexable. The difference between Zulip's implementation and Linen is that you don't need a separate UI when someone finds a link in Google. If you find a link through Google you get a dynamic real time experience instead of a static page.

wanderingmind 4y ago
Thank you for the detailes response. This is a killer feature that can help Linen differentiate from others I guess. Good luck
v3ss0n 4y ago
Zulip have web community support. https://blog.zulip.com/2022/05/05/public-access-option/ https://blog.zulip.com/2022/05/05/public-access-option/
- cheeseblubber 4y ago
  Public web access doesn't equal search-engine index-ability. Search engines are notoriously bad at crawling Javascript heavy sites like chat apps. We spent several months of engineering time getting this right. This involved redesigning our pagination system to be a cursor based one so search engines can paginate it consistently, rendering a static version of Linen, generating sitemaps for large communities (50k+ members), and updating SEO metadata for search engines.
  - wanderingmind 4y ago
    What might be useful is having an example comparison of how SEO indexing can make Linen standout compared to Zulip when searching for chat messages.

wanderingmind 4y ago

Thank you for the detailes response. This is a killer feature that can help Linen differentiate from others I guess. Good luck

v3ss0n 4y ago

Zulip have web community support. https://blog.zulip.com/2022/05/05/public-access-option/ https://blog.zulip.com/2022/05/05/public-access-option/

cheeseblubber 4y ago
Public web access doesn't equal search-engine index-ability. Search engines are notoriously bad at crawling Javascript heavy sites like chat apps. We spent several months of engineering time getting this right. This involved redesigning our pagination system to be a cursor based one so search engines can paginate it consistently, rendering a static version of Linen, generating sitemaps for large communities (50k+ members), and updating SEO metadata for search engines.
- wanderingmind 4y ago
  What might be useful is having an example comparison of how SEO indexing can make Linen standout compared to Zulip when searching for chat messages.