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24 alternatives to Linen – Open-source Slack for communities
Hi HN, My name is Kam. I'm the founder of Linen.dev. Linen communities is a Slack/Discord alternative that is Google-searchable and customer-support friendly. Today we are open-sourcing Linen and launching Linen communities. You can now create a community on Linen.dev without syncing it from Slack and Discord! I initially launched Linen as a tool to sync Slack and Discord conversations to a search engine-friendly website. As I talked to more community managers, I quickly realized that Slack and Discord communities don't scale well and that there needs to be a better tool, especially for…
Linen is an open-source community platform that functions as an alternative to Slack and Discord. It enables communities to create searchable, Google-indexed conversations designed for customer support and knowledge… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Linen – Open-source Slack for communities launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Free open source Slack alternative for communities
2022 · linen.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Kam here. I’m the founder of Linen.dev https://linen.dev, a website that makes your public Slack community Google searchable. Linen will sync your Slack threads and make it SEO friendly so your community can find Slack content that was previously hidden. Previously I worked on a popular open source project which had a sizable Slack community. Slack was great for engaging with community members and with early sales. However as community scales Slack becomes this black hole where context becomes lost. Most public communities can’t afford to pay for several…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm Kam, the founder and one of the authors of Linen. Today, we are launching Linen.team (https://linen.team/), a lightweight threaded messaging app for your team. Modern workplace messaging apps (like Slack) are based on IRC, which is great for small groups, but as it scales, breaks down quickly: you either get overwhelmed by notifications or you have to turn them all off. Most chat apps have threads tacked on but aren't built from the ground up with this design in mind. We wanted to create a thread-first experience where you can organize and prioritize conversations…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Slack▲2,714Be less busy. Real-time messaging, archiving & search.
2013 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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Turn Slack, Discord, Circle into a virtual co-working space
2023 · flow.club · its alternatives →
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800+ community resources and Notion workbook for free
2021 · its alternatives →
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Get a Spotify like recap of your Slack/Discord community
2022 · its alternatives →
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Integral ▲760i've been a power user of slack/discord and etc. since i was a kid and i dont like the fact that they get unusable/noisy after 20 members join. so i designed integral to get rid of the 2 biggest causes of noise on slack/discord and similar apps: 1. channels 2. recency based feed i've replaced these 2 with a few subtle features (different approaches for business vs communities). check it out and let me know what you think :)
2024 · integralhq.com · its alternatives →
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Lightweight Google-searchable Slack alternative for Communities - linen.dev/packages/integration-matrix/readme.md at main · Linen-dev/linen.dev
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discover what tools the world’s best communities run on
2022 · its alternatives →
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A free tool for migrating your data from Discord to Slack
2019 · discord.karmabot.chat · its alternatives →
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