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In my opinion that's less clunky than Slack because it gives you a good overview of what conversations are taking place in a channel, instead of scrolling up an
by Shoue 6y ago
In my opinion that's less clunky than Slack because it gives you a good overview of what conversations are taking place in a channel, instead of scrolling up and seeing a 100 reply thread you missed. It's also how Flowdock does it, which has some of the best threading I've experienced in chat software.
- nemetroid 6y agoThe downside is that if there’s one thread with active discussion, everything else gets buried.
- jbister 6y agoI agree in principle that it's nice to be able to see the full conversations without clicking into a bunch of threads, but a problem that I have noticed when people use Mattermost is that they either forget or don't notice that people are using the thread feature and simply reply directly in the channel to an active thread. This makes it so that anyone who isn't looking at the channel loses track of the conversation. You could fix this by repeatedly telling anyone who does it wrong to do it right, but people simply can't make that mistake when the threads are collapsed by default. As things are now, the thread feature in Mattermost doesn't really help that much, because if you want to be really sure not to miss part of a conversation you need to keep a separate window with that channel open anyway instead of just having the thread open in the same window.