One thing that's not mentioned in the article that I see as one of the main drawbacks of slack is lack of threading, which makes it much harder to have an async

One thing that's not mentioned in the article that I see as one of the main drawbacks of slack is lack of threading, which makes it much harder to have an async. conversation (especially across timezones). The very very weird part to me about this is that slack say they've been working on threading for at least 18 months now (https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/535121236452732928 https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/535121236452732928) and still can't provide a timeline for when it'll go live, which seems really odd for such a well funded development team, given it's such an oft-requested piece of functionality (there's even a twitter account dedicated to it https://twitter.com/slackThreadsYet https://twitter.com/slackThreadsYet )