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Spaces is the most important thing I miss in Slack. The use of different accounts for different communities is understandable in the business point of view, but
by up6w6 5y ago
Spaces is the most important thing I miss in Slack. The use of different accounts for different communities is understandable in the business point of view, but is very unacceptable for people just curious about multiple open-source projects. They are also adding conversation threading [1], which I think is one of the most notorious features of Slack.
The thing I like about Matrix is they are basically implementing every feature in the other platforms, so it's just a matter of time before we get a decent UI that can compete with the existing platforms
[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3440 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3440
- kevincox 5y agoThis is my point as well. I can see the Slack model of basically completely independent workspaces works well for something that I am doing full-time but for open source work it is just too much effort to follow. Discord is better but I still find that switching between different servers is a lot of clicking and for non-focused servers you only see server-level read/unread. I really like the Matrix (and WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Telegram...) model where every chat is just a different room that I can have in one recency list. Spaces of top of "just rooms" does a nice job to help discovery and filtering. At least for how I work Matrix "Spaces" is actually the best UX for my personal life as opposed to "Servers" or "Workspaces". Element could definitely improve on other fronts but the way it "merges" my different communities on the client is excellent.