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badger Follow up on <https linen futureofcoding org> who here has tried it out Is anyone using it regularly What do you think about it

Ivan Reese · Answer

It seems like Kam the dev has been burning down the list of features I asked for based on what we d probably find most useful But if it doesn t do something you want let me know and perhaps it can be added I think this tool solves some significant problems with Slack and with a not bad UI to boot But if we re not even using it that s a problem too hah

Andrew F · Answer

I uh missed it entirely It looks nice

Tom Larkworthy · Answer

Hmm I have still be using slack to search but I forgot about it too I have bookmarked it and will make more effort to try it out in future

Tony Worm · Answer

what is it supposed to be in the long run

Ivan Reese · Answer

A way for us to reduce some of the downsides of Slack as a host of our community discussions Chiefly old Slack messages aren t visible or searchable but Linen allows us to search and nicely view that history Secondarily Linen exposes that full history to search engines In other words Linen makes our community a little more like a classic BB

Ivan Reese · Answer

Did that answer your question

Tony Worm · Answer

I think so It doesn t replace slack just archive and searchable I might pass it along to others in that case

Tony Worm · Answer

Is it available for others to use

Ivan Reese · Answer

Yes and <https www linen dev|yes>

Tony Worm · Answer

If you add support for GitHub issues amp discussions I d probably be willing to pay for it details ofc

Tony Worm · Answer

Their search is horrendous it can t even do prefix matching searching foo will not return matches for foobar

Tony Worm · Answer

Wait do they only support email magic link based login no thanks

Ivan Reese · Answer

< Kam Leung> if you re around you might want to talk to < Tony Worm> about these requests

Kam Leung · Answer

Sorry about the search the team is me and one other person full time right now so we are using the standard full text search from Postgres We ll use a dedicated search service once we have more bandwidth The goal is to get Linen to be indexed by Google so they can handle the search If you google <http siteslack chats kotlinlang org|site slack chats kotlinlang org> for example they have around 20 30k results on Google Happy to chat about Github issue and discussion support I ll follow up over DM

Kam Leung · Answer

As a side note we ve pushed out a ton of updates since last few months The UI has been changed quite a bit to match Slack s UI Since the site is more dynamic we render a static version for search engine so the SEO isn t impacted We ve changed up pagination to be more google search friendly along with a bunch of sitemap updates < Ivan Reese> if you have a chance you should upload the sitemap to and this should help with search ranking and community discoverability On the higher end we re seeing 20 30k pages of Linen in a community getting indexed by google The more you share and link the more likely Google will pick it up So the more you share the links publicly the better

Tom Larkworthy · Answer

< Kam Leung> I want to quote something someone said in a thread but the conversation is long so the top level link doesn t seem targeted enough Is there a better way to link to a section within a thread or even better highlight a quote Context of why I wish to do this

Tom Larkworthy · Answer

Also I can t seem to find any docs for <http linen dev|linen dev> they might be behind a signin but I am not the site admin so I probably don t have a signin

Kam Leung · Answer

Let me check if we can do it quickly It s on the roadmap but something haven t gotten to yet

Kam Leung · Answer

Also if anyone is interested in chatting I am working on a feed feature that I want to get some feedback on The problem I want to solve is to not be overwhelmed by the number of conversation in a slack community

Kam Leung · Answer

< Tom Larkworthy> Just shipped the feature you should be able to deep link to a specific message now It s not ideal yet but wanted to ship something quicker Probably some sort of highlighting on the ones that has the link

Kam Leung · Answer

It works by hovering over the thread view on the side on the specific message