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> Make Slack and Discord communities Google-searchable

Isn't Slack an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge"?! Then they either failed miserably at making it searchable to the point of requiring an entire new business to make it so, or I'm not seeing the point of Linen.

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There's a distinction between searching for info within a Slack community (Slack handles this well) and searching _from the outside_ for info that only lives within a Slack community. As more and more communities that used to live on public forums migrate to Discord or Slack, that knowledge is basically impossible to find from the outside (Google) if you're not already a member of the Discord or Slack instance. From what I understand, it's this latter use case that Linen is targeting.

"Slack handles this well" That's questionable… ':) — Though I get it now. And that's indeed a need! Reminds me of when we needed to setup IRC bouncers to not lose history. Thanks.

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