Why closed, non-searchable platforms ?

Posted Jun 17, 2025 11:46 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Why closed, non-searchable platforms ? by wtarreau
Parent article: Changes to Kubernetes Slack (Kubernetes Contributors blog)

> Sometimes some useful information might have been exchanged there but will never be seen by search engines and will never be found by someone facing a similar problem.

This is a growing problem even for nominally "open" platforms -- when everyone and their dog has a badly-behaved "AI" scraper that combined DDoS on your resources, your only recourse is to start blocking crawlers (along with large swaths of the internet)