Community capture

A question from a community reaches your queue four ways: you select it in the browser, you forward it to your capture address, you paste it, or, in a Slack or Discord you run, a read-only bot an administrator added hears it in the channels it was invited to. All four run the same pipeline.

The public sweep reads open rooms. Most of the good questions are asked in rooms it cannot reach: a private Slack, a Discord, a paid group.

The line is that in a room you were let into, the product captures what you deliberately mark and never what you scrolled past. Ingesting a channel you were let into is surveillance, and it ends memberships. Losing the community costs more than any conversation inside it.

A room you run is different, and the bot is held to stricter rules than the browser companion: it reads only where an administrator said yes, only the channels somebody invited it to, never posts, replies or reacts, and archives nothing it does not surface.

1. 01Select a message in a browser and press the shortcut.
2. 02Forward a message or a digest to your capture address, which is on the Today screen.
3. 03Paste a message into the box on Today or Conversations.
4. 04In a community you run, add the read-only bot from Settings, Communities you run, then invite it to the channels where questions get asked.
5. 05Read the reply it drafts before posting it. You post, in your own account.

• The browser companion
• Community intent, public and private
• Conversations