Am I the only one who thinks chat apps are making the internet kinda worse by locking up useful information behind a system that can't be indexed\searched through on search engines? I know chatrooms could be odd to have appear on google searches but so many orgs and software projects now use discord etc as their support section so resolving an issue once doesn't help people in the future searching for the solution.

with that being said im glad matrix is improving

EDIT: apparently this is being worked on https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-public-archive thanks @testman@lemmy.ml for linking this. Now they just need to also start working on Threads which im assuming is already on their roadmap

[–] liminal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://view.matrix.org

[–] nxlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

interesting, i didnt know this was a thing either but is it scraped by search engines?

[–] liminal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The pages are plain html, so yeah? Now I'm unsure if search engines can really scrape the entire post history because pagination is done with anchors, I'm not sure how robust anchors are.

An anchor looks like this: https://view.matrix.org/room/!OGEhHVWSdvArJzumhm:matrix.org/?anchor=$c2Qx9k8CB4WBrNsIxW4WxlZ1MqBvYS-tfGFsA7QkxMg&offset=60

[–] liminal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yup this doesn't seem robust at all. Any message anchor= just points to a message UUID, which means there is a page, showing adjacent messages, for every message. The pages are mostly duplicates.

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