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Of course you should use what you like, but I'm also puzzled because you can "ignore" threads if you want in Zulip by keeping your focus on the channel. For ex

by chubot 6y ago

Of course you should use what you like, but I'm also puzzled because you can "ignore" threads if you want in Zulip by keeping your focus on the channel. For example I have a channel called #oil-discuss. It has a bunch of separate threads. If I put the focus on the left bar in #oil-discuss, then it shows me all the messages in chronological order, regardless of thread. If you click on a thread, then you see only the messages in that thread. So I think it's the best of both worlds. ---- Unfortunately it doesn't go the other way around in my experience -- Slack can't emulate Zulip. I joined Slack to discuss a nascent Python project. https://twitter.com/teoliphant/status/1217611221396082695?lang=en https://twitter.com/teoliphant/status/1217611221396082695?la... The creator of the channel encouraged everyone to use Slack threads to keep the conversation organized. But the threading was so awkward -- it felt felt like my replies were getting "lost" on the side, outside the main flow. Multiple people disliked the Slack threading and eventually we tried python-dev's nascent Zulip instance instead. Although I think the conversation died out in both places for other reasons.

isbjorn16 6y ago
I'd suspect it depends on what you're using it for - our instance of chat is primarily roughly themed chat rooms where we can talk about video games and bitch about python or rust or scala or home improvement projects or the news. It's very much so a modern day AOL chatroom experience, and that's by desire. We have discourse for things that make sense for deep threading, but for the most part everyone ignores it and just uses the chatrooms or the fairly effervescent threading in MM (that is basically the same as Slack's). If you're looking for a more real-time mailing list type behavior though, then Slack or MM would be a terrible, terrible, terrible choice imo.

by chubot 6y ago

isbjorn16 6y ago

I'd suspect it depends on what you're using it for - our instance of chat is primarily roughly themed chat rooms where we can talk about video games and bitch about python or rust or scala or home improvement projects or the news. It's very much so a modern day AOL chatroom experience, and that's by desire. We have discourse for things that make sense for deep threading, but for the most part everyone ignores it and just uses the chatrooms or the fairly effervescent threading in MM (that is basically the same as Slack's). If you're looking for a more real-time mailing list type behavior though, then Slack or MM would be a terrible, terrible, terrible choice imo.