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My point is that Telegram does the same things, but is much, much more polished. If I reply to a message on Telegram, the original message is summarised and li

My point is that Telegram does the same things, but is much, much more polished. If I reply to a message on Telegram, the original message is summarised and linked. Slack starts a weird new "thread" which hides the subsequent conversation in a difficult to access backwater. If I want to edit a published message on Telegram, it's right there in the context menu. On Slack I have to do a complicated dance... hover over the message so that a hamburger menu appears, click on the menu, then click on the edit option. Click-drag just doesn't work. If I want to search through message history on Telegram I click the search icon, type my search term and there are my search results. On Slack, again it's hidden behind a different hamburger menu. More click-click-click, and eventually I see my results, obscuring the current conversation! But not all of the results are there, apparently you have to pay for that. Reactions are hidden behind a clunky hover-click-click interface. ...I could go on and on. It all kind of works, but it feels unfinished, like it's a prototype that's been bashed out in a weekend. Or it feels like a clunky web-app a-la Discord.

nottorp 2y ago
Threads are idiotic on slack, agreed. I just ignore them and manually snip the line i'm replying to, prefix it with > and write my reply below. What do you do on Telegram when you want to post 2 pages of logs? Slack has this "text snippet" feature that can take a long text and post it collapsed by default, and whoever wants to see the details can expand it inline or save. Can you pin a message to a Telegram channel, to have reference info handy? Can you upload large files to Telegram and have them available 2 years later? (On the paid version of Slack). Do you have a Telegram git or github integration plugin that will automatically notify about the commits in the project's channel? They don't do the same things and your use case is not Slack's. > Or it feels like a clunky web-app a-la Discord. You're saying Telegram clients are native apps? I strongly doubt it :)

nottorp 2y ago

Threads are idiotic on slack, agreed. I just ignore them and manually snip the line i'm replying to, prefix it with > and write my reply below. What do you do on Telegram when you want to post 2 pages of logs? Slack has this "text snippet" feature that can take a long text and post it collapsed by default, and whoever wants to see the details can expand it inline or save. Can you pin a message to a Telegram channel, to have reference info handy? Can you upload large files to Telegram and have them available 2 years later? (On the paid version of Slack). Do you have a Telegram git or github integration plugin that will automatically notify about the commits in the project's channel? They don't do the same things and your use case is not Slack's. > Or it feels like a clunky web-app a-la Discord. You're saying Telegram clients are native apps? I strongly doubt it :)