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Agreed. Slack threads are unbearable.
by whall6 5y ago
Agreed. Slack threads are unbearable.
- aerovistae 5y agoI guess I would have to use Flowdock to understand -- those gifs were confusing and unclear to me. I'm not sure what I was looking at. Personally I find slack threads perfectly usable and helpful for keeping things organized for the most part. What's the issue with them? I found them a revolutionary step forward in chat UX to be honest, something that had been missing for 20 years or more.
- sitharus 5y agoSome people - like myself - prefer to see all the messages go past and mentally thread them. It’s a skill I learnt from many years of irc use. Others prefer to click through and not think about thread content until they choose to. Also I’d rather not grab my mouse to see things.
- steveklabnik 5y ago> Also I’d rather not grab my mouse to see things. I have not tried threads yet but I have been assured they are fully accessible via the keyboard only.
- sagichmal 5y agoThey emphatically are not.
- steveklabnik 5y agoIn what way? I'd like to tell them about it; they've explicitly asked for feedback on this.
- sagichmal 5y agoOh, sorry; I thought you were talking about Slack threads. I can't speak to Discord threads.
- steveklabnik 5y agoAh my bad!
- da_chicken 5y ago> Also I’d rather not grab my mouse to see things. Use the up and down arrows to navigate to the message you want and hit T to switch to the thread side view. Similarly, you can do the same to find your own messages and use E to edit them.
- user-the-name 5y agoWhy not just try to unlearn that, because it is a massive waste of mental effort in a lot of situations?
- whall6 5y agoOne thing that I don’t like is that I have to click a checkbox every time I want to submit a reply to a thread to the channel that the thread is in. Not everyone in the channel is notified in the same way when additional replies are made within a thread within the channel.
- zippergz 5y agoWhich, indeed, is the point. Threads are primarily useful in very busy channels with multiple conversations happening. The point of a thread is to get the conversation out of the main channel so it doesn't disrupt other discussions. If you want every message to go to the main channel, just post it there, not in a thread. IMHO that checkbox shouldn't even exist.
- buzer 5y agoMy experience is from ~2 years ago so things may have changed a bit. Essentially there is a default view which contains all messages as usual. Each message also has a symbol next to it. If it's grey message bubble, it's a message that is not tied to any thread (it can be replied to to start a new thread. Previously if no other messages have appeared on channel so far, it can be dragged & dropped to another thread). If it's colored message bubble, it's the first message in the thread. A colored arrow means it's part of the thread with that color. This allows you to mostly just stay in default view with all of the channel's messages. As long as people are putting the messages in the thread itself, you could quickly use the colors to see which thread the message is on (color collisions did happen, but they were fairly rare). You would need to open the thread only if you needed more context or wanted to reply to it, though replying can also be done by writing to channel & dragging the message to thread.
- sagichmal 5y agoTell me how to (a) identify an interesting thread, (b) view its contents, (c) contribute to it, and (d) return to it after closing the app, without using the mouse.