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https://rocket.chat And this https://riot.im/app/#/directory 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > >