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I like threads a lot in the way we use it. With 60+ people in one channel, being able to ask a question and get answers in the thread, while not spamming the ch

• climb_stealth 6y ago
  Threads in Slack are useful but the implementation is pretty bad. For example you don't see new responses in a visible thread until you click the button for more messages. It makes them really frustrating to use. Slack does a lot of things really well which makes the pain of using threads even worse.
  • endgame 6y ago
    And for some boneheaded reason, you can't /collapse in threads, so if you have colleagues who like both threads and gifs, you're stuck.
  • OJFord 6y ago
    I also wish there wasn't 'sharing', or at least not to the same channel, so that there's one clear way for the 'continue earlier topic' use case. Having said that, there's also 'reply to thread and also share to channel', making it even worse. I think that one's the closest Slack has to fixing threading's problems though - if you're aware of it being a potential issue, you can at least highlight it. It'd be good if there were an 'active thread(s)' thing that appeared on the right side or something (at the bottom of what is the the thread panel when one's open, I'm imagining though. Easy to ignore, but when you're checking if there's new messages in your main channel you'd also see if there were new thread activity.