Show HN: SaveSlack – create searchable knowledgebase from your Slack community
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It's pretty rough around the edges still, but if it's something you might find useful, let me know and I'll keep working on it.
Having the source available under a license allowing me to locally inspect, build, and run it locally is a prerequisite for this to be interesting at all. Which would actually make it very interesting. For me, moreso than it actually working flawlessly.
> uploading all your messages to a random website might not be for everyone!
It should not be for anyone who either cares about their message content secrecy or who's uploading company chats where this is prohibited.
Doing this indexing work is a bit different on Discord as their privacy policy doesn't let you publicly share users messages without them consenting first - so this project has got a lot built out for driving user consent to allow for those messages to be displayed publicly.
For users who haven't explicitly said they want their messages to be public, those messages can still be shown on the site they just have to be behind a sign in that checks if the users are in the same server
A big focus of this project is building out tools to improve help channels on Discord and then using what gets built out to drive user consent, for example one feature of it is being able to mark questions as solved which also prompts users to contribute their messages
It's already gone through some review at Discord as the bot got incorrectly quarantined when it was in its first server, so I had to explain what it was and how it worked in my support ticket. They didn't raise any concerns and unquarantined it
Compliance with the ToS is also expanded upon more at https://www.answeroverflow.com/faq
If somebody knows a more recent/feature rich tool, I'd love to hear it!
rereading your comment: I guess you are looking for a way to export your discord history, not import your slack history into discord. sorry!
https://kbclip.com/ is something we've been using as you don't have to deal with the slog of searching through all the inane conversations to find what you're looking for (and it's a lot more structured). That being said, you do have recognize that you want to save something up front.
Maybe use both?
Works more like a searchable knowledge graph, with the ability to identify users as nodes. Ie you can search for answers in the messages, links that probably have answers and people who would likely know the answers (we then link to said people).
I'm happy to answer any questions people have. Initial feedback has been pretty positive so far.
Valid point about how KB Clip is "opt-in". that's intentional as many channels can be like a firehose. The core tenet of KB Clip design is that the most important info should be clipped and it should only take seconds to do so. I love a good pun or gif war and anyone, but not in my wiki or KB.
That being said, I've also got some roadmap features that help surface conversations that heuristically might be important to save as well.
We offer a bunch of little things that you might not build but are very helpful:
* We support real time message sync in addition to historic uploads
* We support sitemaps for large communities since our largest community has over 50k members and almost a million messages and it makes it easier for google to find the conversations
* We support emoji and image attachments
* We offer anonymization for your community members so it hides display name as well as profile pictures.
We charge a higher price for premium account because we are 2 full time engineers working on this and want to hit profitability so we can be around for the long run. We are still experimenting with the pricing model so if pricing is an issue let me know.