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		julianlam on Jan 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If it will matter after today, don't talk about it... The key here is not the format of communication, since you've listed email chains, chat, and forums in one list. It's the fact that slack and discord are essentially walled gardens that do not allow for third-party indexing. Therein lies the problem. If public discord servers were indexable you'd have no issue with it.

andybak on Jan 12, 2021 [–]

I would still have some issues. I do find IRC archives much, much less valuable than more structured sources.

But I'm picking my battles at this point in time. And the lack of indexing is the most critical flaw and one I think is immensely damaging to technical communities on those platforms.

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