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If MS can nail the creation and organization of "micro channels", that would be a huge innovation in this space that Slack has not been able to figure out yet.
by socialist_coder 10y ago
If MS can nail the creation and organization of "micro channels", that would be a huge innovation in this space that Slack has not been able to figure out yet.
We are a 100% remote company and we use Slack and Teamspeak as our primary communication tools. Our biggest problem with Slack is when multiple conversations are happening in the same channel. There should be a way to segregate those convos into separate "theads", without having to make new channels.
That would be a huge win for whatever chat product can solve this pain point. Unfortunately, innovation is probably not a huge payoff since the competition would simply copy the feature =(
- tluyben2 10y agoExactly that and Slack being crap with bad connections made us dump it: it does not add much. I want something robust like Whatsapp with subthreads.
- mrmystery 10y agoFlowdock has threads, and it is really great. That alone makes it better than Slack in my book. Alas, I now work at a shop that uses Slack.
- Voloskaya 10y agoTeams does allow you to respond to a specific message, linking messages together into threads. So you can have multiple threads into a single channel.
- Eridrus 10y agoFlowdock has had threaded conversations forever. I think some of the other competitors do too. Looks like Microsoft's Teams product also has threads. Because not having threads is insane.