On: Slack is down

[adrianpike]

Same - and it's just... weird. The "everything must be in a thread" model feels really clunky.

[kmichler → adrianpike]

That's a good point, however threads do tend to help with keeping things organized when in a channel.

It actually might be a good thing that everyone doesn't feel the need to look at slack every X minutes.

[politelemon → adrianpike]

Subjective... I've found Slack and co's interspersed conversations far too chaotic, and temporal; threading is a great way of organising many different concurrent topics.

And to be clear I don't mean Slack's implementation of threads which is hiding it away in a separate panel and which doesn't get used by everyone either.

[johnc1231 → politelemon]

I find Zulip to be a nice balance. Threads are much more prominent than they are in Slack, but aren't clunky.