Great work Ash, +1 from my side on keeping this. Also liked the domain "slack-archives.org" :)
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 6:10 PM Ash Berlin-Taylor <a...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Thanks to prompting from Sumit, I have "resurrected" a project I started > back in 2019, and have got searchable slack archives available: > > https://apache-airflow.slack-archives.org/ > > (This is a fancy looking URL, there is nothing else on the domain yet. Any > other projects want this too?) > > A little known fact of Slack is that the export an admin can do contains > *all* messages, not just the ones the client will show, so this has all > 130k+ messages in the DB. For example > https://apache-airflow.slack-archives.org/announcements/page-1 for > example shows the very first message from Fokko > > This service also has a bot user, called Archie the Archive Bot, that if > invited to channels will listen for messages (and deletions/edits etc). To > get this bot in the channel we need to run /invite @archie -- I'm not > sure if only workspace admins can do this or if anyone can. > > Features that are missing/broken/confusing right now: > - Thread replies aren't handled visually correctly -- rather than being > nested under the original message they are just shown like a normal message. > - No ability to permalink to a specific message > - Markdown formatting in messages might be incomplete > - Shared files/images may or may not be accessible. I haven't really > tested it. > - It needs a privacy policy/data protection statement > - Since it's using VueJS (the project I forked this froms choice, not > mine) it's probably not indexable by search engines. > - The front end is only showing 10k messages per channel ( > https://apache-airflow.slack-archives.org/random/page-1) -- given it's > paged already there's no need for this limitation to exist. > - Links to users don't go anywhere sensible. > > I'm sure there are many more small gotchas, but I didn't want perfect to > be the enemy of the good. > > The code for this service lives at https://github.com/ashb/slackarchive - > PRs welcome ;) Most of the readme is still wrong there. > > If anyone isn't happy with this I can delete it, or set certain channels > to not be archived etc. > > -ash >
