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On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 10:26, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> unless we pay.
> they basically kidnap our messages and demand a ransom for them (and is
> expensive)… and the model seems to work, everybody prefers using that than
> a searchable tool :(
>
> I would prefer to use an open tool, but well… slack gives us a lot of
> features and life is like this :(
>
> Esteban
>
> > On 13 Jan 2017, at 09:04, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> >
> > so it is not publicly available/visible/indexable ?
> > so everything written there basically disappears ?
> >
> >> On 13 Jan 2017, at 09:01, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Slack encrypts the message history and it only stores 10.000 messages
> >>
> >> You could use the Slack search feature
> >>
> >>
> https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202528808-Search-for-messages-and-files
> >>
> >> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 08:40, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>
> wrote:
> >> and slack is closed, right ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 13 Jan 2017, at 01:36, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> Google already is capable on focusing on Pharo related websites.
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> The core of our documentation is located on 3 websites
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> World.st , this sites includes a forum website for all the Smalltalk
> related mailing lists
> >>
> >>> Stackoverflow, Pharo has its own tag and a ton of answered questions
> >>
> >>> Github.com, here are located all the Pharo books
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> So to search all documentation about Spec on only these 3 websites you
> use the following search query
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> pharo spec site:world.st OR site:stackoverflow.com OR site:github.com
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> There are other ways to customize a google search query , please look
> at google search documentation
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 at 11:38, Siemen Baader <siemenbaa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Has anybody looked into SEO'ing any of the great documentation and
> archived questions on the mailing list?
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> It strikes me that I often can't find the answer to questions I have
> on Google, but they are often answered in material that I can find when I
> look manually for some time or am pointed at it by an experienced member of
> the community.
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> I also  miss Pharo - content on Stackoverflow, it is a very efficient
> way to get past road blocks quickly.
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> Any thoughts or history to bring me up to speed with?
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> cheers,
> >>
> >>> Siemen
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

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