Linen

Linen is an open source, lightweight community platform that syncs your Slack or Discord conversations onto a searchable, SEO-friendly website. It's designed for online communities and support groups that want their discussions indexed by Google and LLMs instead of being locked inside a private chat app.

Discord is a real-time chat tool where conversations are hard to search and invisible to search engines. Linen takes a different approach: it only syncs your public channels to a public, SEO-optimized website, so community content becomes discoverable on Google, reduces repeat questions, and can be viewed without a login.

Linen works alongside your existing Slack or Discord community. It syncs threads from your public channels in real time to a searchable website — you keep chatting in Discord, and Linen handles the public, indexable archive of those conversations.

Yes. Linen is open source and self-hostable. This lets you own your data, keep your community content on your own domain, and get the SEO benefits without relying on a third-party service. There is also a hosted version with paid tiers that add custom domains and advanced branding.

Linen only syncs conversations from public channels. It stores only display names and profile pictures — it does not collect email addresses or private member information. It also offers an option to anonymize member display names, and it will delete a member's information and messages on request.