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You should try Twist (https://twistapp.com/ https://twistapp.com/). I switched to Twist with my team and haven't looked back at Slack. Twist organizes discussio

You should try Twist (https://twistapp.com/ https://twistapp.com/). I switched to Twist with my team and haven't looked back at Slack. Twist organizes discussions around tasks. When the task is finished, that conversation is pretty much over. Read this post by Amir, the founder of TwistApp - Why We're Betting Against Real Time Messaging - https://blog.doist.com/why-were-betting-against-real-time-team-messaging-521804a3da09 https://blog.doist.com/why-were-betting-against-real-time-te...

ScottBurson 9y ago
How does Twist compare with a forum app like, say, Discourse?
atombender 9y ago
Twist looks promising, if a little simplistic. I've been looking for something like this to complement our Slack channels, and to replace Basecamp (which our sales staff and project managers use for our B2B customer collaboration), which I think is terrible. But the fact that Twist also has real-time chat means that it doesn't really make sense to use both Twist and Slack -- it wants to be the one platform your team uses. At the same time, Twist isn't nearly as polished as Slack (try opening the web app on mobile -- it doesn't scale to the display!). Are there any good tools like this? Something a little more project/task-oriented than Discourse, but not a full-blown task management system like Trello or JIRA?
yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago
Then why not just use comment threads on tickets?
- jordanpg 9y ago
  Agree, this just looks like a subset of JIRA with a snappier UI. Atlassian would do well to pay attention.
dingo_bat 9y ago
I saw the twist video. And it seems just like slack. Slack, but guys please observe discipline. The UI, design, philosophy everything is identical to slack. You feel forced to respond to slack chats, so just chill and respond only when you want to. This is literally in the video. The thread loses track of the topic, so we have exactly the same hierarchy and groupings like slack, but guys please just use the thread for the topic only. This is literally in the video. Chats are annoying and people keep disturbing you in slack. We have "messages", perfect for small groups and individual conversations. Again, exactly like slack, but let's all promise to be not annoying. The UI and app look great, I can see that folks really worked hard on this thing. But there is zero differentiation from slack. It looks like somebody took slack, re-colored it, and put "calmer and more organized" on the website.
- TotempaaltJ 9y ago
  > The UI, design, philosophy everything is identical to slack. This isn't quite right. The way Twist shows threads and information is a lot closer to email, and there's a big difference in how it organizes information: on top of channels, which are based on groups or projects, it has threads as a base organizational unit. UX does influence behaviour, afaik. The Twist UX facilitates and encourages long-form, on-topic discussion a LOT more than Slack. See also email: have you ever used email like Slack? imo the main issue is actually that email + some mailing lists still has major advantages over Twist.

ScottBurson 9y ago

How does Twist compare with a forum app like, say, Discourse?

atombender 9y ago

Twist looks promising, if a little simplistic. I've been looking for something like this to complement our Slack channels, and to replace Basecamp (which our sales staff and project managers use for our B2B customer collaboration), which I think is terrible. But the fact that Twist also has real-time chat means that it doesn't really make sense to use both Twist and Slack -- it wants to be the one platform your team uses. At the same time, Twist isn't nearly as polished as Slack (try opening the web app on mobile -- it doesn't scale to the display!). Are there any good tools like this? Something a little more project/task-oriented than Discourse, but not a full-blown task management system like Trello or JIRA?

yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago

Then why not just use comment threads on tickets?

jordanpg 9y ago
Agree, this just looks like a subset of JIRA with a snappier UI. Atlassian would do well to pay attention.

dingo_bat 9y ago

I saw the twist video. And it seems just like slack. Slack, but guys please observe discipline. The UI, design, philosophy everything is identical to slack. You feel forced to respond to slack chats, so just chill and respond only when you want to. This is literally in the video. The thread loses track of the topic, so we have exactly the same hierarchy and groupings like slack, but guys please just use the thread for the topic only. This is literally in the video. Chats are annoying and people keep disturbing you in slack. We have "messages", perfect for small groups and individual conversations. Again, exactly like slack, but let's all promise to be not annoying. The UI and app look great, I can see that folks really worked hard on this thing. But there is zero differentiation from slack. It looks like somebody took slack, re-colored it, and put "calmer and more organized" on the website.

TotempaaltJ 9y ago
> The UI, design, philosophy everything is identical to slack. This isn't quite right. The way Twist shows threads and information is a lot closer to email, and there's a big difference in how it organizes information: on top of channels, which are based on groups or projects, it has threads as a base organizational unit. UX does influence behaviour, afaik. The Twist UX facilitates and encourages long-form, on-topic discussion a LOT more than Slack. See also email: have you ever used email like Slack? imo the main issue is actually that email + some mailing lists still has major advantages over Twist.