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I don't really see the issue with it. In Slack, we have a channel for our team. In that channel we have conversations, often more than one at a time, spread out
by kadoban 5y ago
I don't really see the issue with it. In Slack, we have a channel for our team. In that channel we have conversations, often more than one at a time, spread out over minutes to days. Why shouldn't each conversation have its own separate thread?
The only real problem(s) I have with threads in Slack are:
1. some people suck at remembering to reply in thread. This isn't too serious though, once there's more than 2 messages in the thread most people catch on
2. Slack kind of sucks at notifying you about threads. You mostly have to know to look in the "Threads" thing on the side and not rely on notifications.
Neither of those are that serious or even that intrinsic to threads in chat apps in general.
- m3adow 5y agoI totally agree here. At the beginning I disliked Slack threads. But apart from the notification issue, I think the advantages of having a more focussed discussion where everything can be found in one place outweighs the disadvantages.
- dexterdog 5y agoFinding is the problem. Searching for stuff in slack is maddening.
- mikepurvis 5y agoYup, I'm enough of a fan that I wish there was a UI option to steer people away from making new top level posts, like a kind of “tick this box to confirm your post is a new subject and not a reply to an existing subject.” And maybe better tools for channel moderators to move accidental top level posts into being replies instead.
- blauditore 5y agoAlso, Slack's thread UI is terrible. If you click on a thread inside the main chat, you get this side bar, but only one thread at a time, and no way to get the same from anywhere else (e.g. from the threads notification/overview page).
- alanfranz 5y agoWhy would you use a chat app for conversations spreading over days?
- a1445c8b 5y agoThere are times when a conversation that’s important to some participants spontaneously starts in chat and it’s too disruptive to ask less interested (but important) participants to “move it to email.” Suggesting that might cause the conversation to fizzle out which the more interested parties can’t afford.
- alanfranz 5y agoThreads are a stopgap measure. But the problem is using a chat app for extended-scope conversations. We don’t have a good way to switch from chats to more forum-like conversations, and email is perceived as too complex (and has other issues in current implementations)
- replygirl 5y agowhy would you knowingly fragment information when you have the option not to?
- kadoban 5y agoWhy not?
- alanfranz 5y agoDo you usually randomly chat about a topic with multiple people over the course of days, without writing down points and/or making a gist?
- kadoban 5y agoOver days, yes. Without writing down notes? No. I write notes and you can throw them in slack if they're sharable. I don't really see the issue.