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On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 10:26, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@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 <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
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> so it is not publicly available/visible/indexable ?
> so everything written there basically disappears ?
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>> On 13 Jan 2017, at 09:01, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Slack encrypts the message history and it only stores 10.000 messages
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>> You could use the Slack search feature
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>> https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202528808-Search-for-messages-and-files
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>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 08:40, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
>> and slack is closed, right ?
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>>> On 13 Jan 2017, at 01:36, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Google already is capable on focusing on Pharo related websites.
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>>> The core of our documentation is located on 3 websites
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>>> World.st , this sites includes a forum website for all the Smalltalk related mailing lists
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>>> Stackoverflow, Pharo has its own tag and a ton of answered questions
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>>> Github.com, here are located all the Pharo books
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>>>
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>>> So to search all documentation about Spec on only these 3 websites you use the following search query
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>>> pharo spec site:world.st OR site:stackoverflow.com OR site:github.com
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>>>
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>>> There are other ways to customize a google search query , please look at google search documentation
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>>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 at 11:38, Siemen Baader <siemenbaader@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Has anybody looked into SEO'ing any of the great documentation and archived questions on the mailing list?
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>>> 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.
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>>> I also�� miss Pharo - content on Stackoverflow, it is a very efficient way to get past road blocks quickly.
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>>> Any thoughts or history to bring me up to speed with?
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>>>
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>>> cheers,
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>>> Siemen
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