<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 5:50 PM Thomas Goirand <<a href="mailto:zigo@debian.org">zigo@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 5/20/21 2:35 PM, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:<br>
> Well, it could be a norm for us. Pretty much every IRC meeting someone<br>
> interrupts with their question. If the meeting was in a thread, it<br>
> wouldn't be an issue. Interleaving communications also happen very often.<br>
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Threads is the most horrible concept ever invented for chat. You get<br>
100s of them, and when someone replies, you never know in which thread.<br>
Slack is really horrible for this...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Problems of Slack UI are not problems with threading. Slack is terrible, no disagreement here.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, do I understand you right that when you have 3 conversations going on at the same time, you always have an easy time understanding which one a ping corresponds to? I doubt it. Threads make the situation strictly better, assuming people don't go overboard with them.</div><div><br></div><div>Another counter-argument: not having threads forces newcomers to use private messages. I cannot count how many times I've heard "asking here because I don't want to disturb the conversation".<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Cheers,<br>
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Thomas Goirand (zigo)<br>
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