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I still don't like Slack threads. Too many conversations in Slack turn into threads, removing the conversation from visibility without additional clicking, and
by caymanjim 6y ago
I still don't like Slack threads. Too many conversations in Slack turn into threads, removing the conversation from visibility without additional clicking, and fragmenting the flow of information. Real conversations rarely work this way. It's like being in a meeting where every time a new topic comes up, half the people leave the room to start a new meeting, and then come back when the topic changes again. If a topic truly requires enough time and space for that, then by all means take it to another channel or a group chat. Otherwise, keep it in the main space. It breaks the flow and invites premature fragmentation, and the UX is bad.
- black_puppydog 6y ago> and the UX is bad. this. especially jailing threads into a tiny sidebar, with the bad "read status" handling going all over the place when that sidebar happens to be open. Slack threads suck. Just keep everything in one big thread, break out disposable channels when you need them, and build proper archiving features for those. Linking to an existing channel is already there so that shouldn't be a problem.
- caymanjim 6y agoI think a simple solution to my primary gripe about threads would be to keep them all inline, and just indent them, ala HN comments, so people can ignore (or perhaps toggle on/off, with a setting to default that state) the threads. But I still believe Slack would be better without threads.