The performance of the Slack app is not great but ...

# random

[cedric]

The performance of the Slack app is not great but everything else is really good, starting with the UI (IMO the best chat UI I’ve ever seen)

[orangy]

Except threads.

[cedric]

Yeah, but threads are hard to nail down

[cedric]

I’m actually not even aware of any other chat app that has threads

[cedric]

so in a way, it’s the best chat threaded view I’ve ever seen, because I’ve only ever seen one

[adam-mcneilly]

Threads are the #1 benefit of Slack over HipChat.

[orangy]

I think they just need to iterate it faster and fix small annoyances here and there. Like posting images to threads, etc.

[groostav]

i can see it on the slack box

Slack 2018:

... its the best chat threaded view I've ever seen

[yaakov]

I like the threads too. It helps keeps the chat from being flooded.

[adam-mcneilly]

Yeah I feel less bad about shitposting in a thread. 🧌

[orangy]

yep, but you can easily miss something interesting/important

[karelpeeters]

Also, how long did it take them to provide an option to disable the "... joined this channel" messages.

[yaakov]

@adam-mcneilly Um it's called funposting, thank you.

[Shawn]

@cedric Zulip’s chat model is focused around threads, it’s kind of interesting, I guess

[fitzoh]

MS teams has threads, but everything about teams is terrible

[thomasnield]

Search is my biggest problem with it, otherwise great.

[codeslubber]

the fundamental promise of Slack was bots and intelligence, that was clearly just a way to increase their valuation, integrations are useful, but the api is pretty dumb, and nothing ever changes, you cannot even put a link in that has text! and the co is worth $6B?

[cedric]

Valuation is much more tied to eyeballs than this kind of thing. And Slack certainly has plenty of eyeballs

[codeslubber]

yeah but when they first cropped up they did a private raise at $2.8B.. the product has changed very little in the last few years, I wish they did try to make it smarter..

[codeslubber]

I do kind of go along with the argument that it's just another way to give you a simple organizational mechanism that rapidly becomes comparable to what it was supposed to improve, but I would say I still prefer to use Slack, particularly with docs that are backed by google drive than email.