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I have used Slack at a few companies and it has worked fine for us. No reason it should work for you as well, of course; everybody's different. FWIW, the threa
by wpietri 5y ago
I have used Slack at a few companies and it has worked fine for us. No reason it should work for you as well, of course; everybody's different.
FWIW, the thread-chasing thing is not a problem for me because toward the top there's a sidebar element that says "Threads" that lights up when there are new comments in threads.
I've used it only on Linux and haven't experienced input lag. Not sure what the story is there.
- notreallyserio 5y agoThat Threads element only lights up if a thread you've participated in (or have been mentioned in) has activity. If you work in an org that uses threads and you go on vacation for a day or two, you're going to have to spend your first morning back looking for threads to read. You can't know how far back to scroll back either because someone could have replied to a month's old thread. Threading should not have been added, IMO, without a way to optionally show all thread comments in a single view as they are delivered, as though they were regular chat messages (with a thread annotation).
- wpietri 5y agoHuh. We use threads. I've taken time off. I felt no obligation to go back and read every possible thread. Why would your coworkers expect anybody not in the thread to see sudden participation in a month-old thread? Mine sure don't.
- notreallyserio 5y agoProbably expectations associated with threads in all other platforms, like email and message boards going back decades.