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SHOW HN2022
177points
57comments
#338of 2,570 in 2022
Top 14%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
13 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Idea: 13 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Makes useful community knowledge findable on search engines
From 2 comments
I love stuff like this. With so many communities congregating on Discord, Slack etc. we lose a lot of valuable information that would previously have been on something publicly…
blue_cookeh on HNI truly hope you succeed in getting as many communities as possible. This adds a lot of value to everyone.
sonicggg on HN
Useful for internal knowledge management
From 1 comment
Speaking as somebody who somehow gets roped into doing internal knowledge management work, something like this would be great, particularly with the features you're suggesting. I…
Mezzie on HN
Objections
May breach Slack's terms of service
From 3 comments
How does this not breach Slack’s TOS? I thought they specifically prohibited tools like this? We used slackarchive before but it got disabled because of the ToS. The 10k message…
gampleman on HNI really hope you succeed, but I think this breaches the Slack ToS
soulchild37 on HNIs this GDPR compliant? Because both porting user data around to what I assume is American servers as well as maintaining the ability of users to delete personal data seems to…
Barrin92 on HN
Makes private community conversations public without members' consent
From 2 comments
How does this handle privacy? Assuming these Slack conversations were originally in private communities, I'm scratching my head a bit that they are now appearing in Google…
mellosouls on HNUgh, this is a guaranteed way to drive me out of any service that uses this. If it’s your intent to create an unsafe environment, you’re succeeding admirably. Google indexing is…
altairprime on HN
GDPR and personal data deletion concerns
From 1 comment
Is this GDPR compliant? Because both porting user data around to what I assume is American servers as well as maintaining the ability of users to delete personal data seems to…
Barrin92 on HN
Requests
Support Discord
From 2 comments
Supporting Discord would be really neat.
bag_boy on HNThis is fantastic! I'd absolutely love it if Discord were also supported, so many communities there that are non-googleable
ellieh on HN
Support Mattermost
From 1 comment
This is absolutely incredible. Would definitely love to see Mattermost support too.
jaboutboul on HN
Migration path off Slack to a forum
From 2 comments
I don't know if this makes any sense but have you thought about a way to migrate from Slack to a forum?
leros on HNCan you see yourself offering a migration path off of Slack in the future? Your interface is much more accessible not just to Google, but also to this human. I would love to have…
forgotmypw17 on HN
Questions
How data is retrieved from Slack
From 1 comment
If you can share, how do you retrieve data from the Slack group? Scraping as an invited user? A public slack app? For some communities, that could be a massive amount of webhook…
yurishimo on HN
How privacy and public conversion is handled
From 1 comment
How does this handle privacy? Assuming these Slack conversations were originally in private communities, I'm scratching my head a bit that they are now appearing in Google…
mellosouls on HN
Alternatives named
Discourse forums
From 2 comments
It's a bit of a negative comment but I sure wish these communities would rediscover forums. They're not all perfect but I am convinced that Discord and Slack are where valuable…
hardwaresofton on HNDiscourse is an absolute nightmare for searching though, it's painful and slow.
thejosh on HN
Gitter
From 1 comment
Gitter is searchable. I wonder why it isn't popular.
fomine3 on HN
Zulip public streams
From 1 comment
> I would love to have an option to migrate off Slack with continuity. This sounds like something that may interest you: https://zulip.com/help/web-public-streams
mdaniel on HN
slackarchive
From 1 comment
How does this not breach Slack’s TOS? I thought they specifically prohibited tools like this? We used slackarchive before but it got disabled because of the ToS. The 10k message…
gampleman on HN