* I want to give a public emotional response to someone's statement => reactions * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works well, channel grouping works right. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to:" work. * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Subscribing to all threads regardless seems to reduce some of their usefulness and that's the current solution I believe. It's fairly easy to unsubscribe if one's blowing you up. I think Slack's issue would be largely a nonissue if viewing a thread "subscribed" you to it so you could see updates without needing to post. I do find that the Slack thread updates disappearing seems to be less frequent of an issue and the threading problems in the alternative were near constant. The worst offenders were people who refused to thread so even if it was humming along fine they'd just post their response inline always (and repeatedly).ĭon't know if I have a particular point there other than both had tradeoffs. For bigger threads where you caught after the fact it was a threaded, people would either delete and repost or would just duplicate their post over into the thread again (which means it appears twice in the main channel). If it was a nascent threaded conversation (like 2 or so posts only), often the thread was just abandoned and everything was done top level. Now the people in the thread view can't see it, but if you were in the main channel it still looked just fine (after all they were one after the other). So they'd post their response unthreaded right in line. In my experience, the main problem here was that people regularly lost sight that a conversation even was in a thread. Rather than "hide" them from the main branch of a channel, the main branch had every message in the top level and you could collapse to a thread view if you wanted to read it in isolation. I've used Slack competitor Flowdock in the past which did the more "elevated" approach to threads.
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