Archive Drupal discussions from Slack

Problem/Motivation

Many interesting discussions about Drupal take place on Slack, as well as sharing of valuable knowledge.

But it all remains inside Slack, which is not indexed by the search engines, and will eventually be lost. Also, not everyone is on Slack, which requires log in to read the content:

• Walled garden. Content not indexed for search by external search engines (this is a blocker for me).
• Closed source/proprietary (Re: Open Web Manifesto → ).
• The community lose ownership of all content created there.
• Requires users to register a separate account, not tied to Drupal.org account.

From 📌 Please put link to "Forums" back in the "Community" pulldown menu Active .

It's too bad that all these great conversations on Slack are locked in a black box, and will over time disappear ... There are great nuggets of information and insight in there.

Steps to reproduce

Proposed resolution

We could make a Slack-archiver and paste the Drupal conversations into a "The Drupal Slack Daily" issue, thereby creating a permanent archive on drupal.org of Slack discussions in the Slack Drupal channel(s).

The raw messages could work well, both to have them accessible for reading, but also to get them indexed in the search engines, to make them findable.

Maybe Slack Export Viewer can be used? It offers static HTML and automated archive extraction using slackdump:

• https://github.com/hfaran/slack-export-viewer
• https://github.com/rusq/slackdump

Remaining tasks

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