On 5/20/21 2:35 PM, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
> Well, it could be a norm for us. Pretty much every IRC meeting someone
> interrupts with their question. If the meeting was in a thread, it
> wouldn't be an issue. Interleaving communications also happen very often.
Threads is the most horrible concept ever invented for chat. You get
100s of them, and when someone replies, you never know in which thread.
Slack is really horrible for this...
Problems of Slack UI are not problems with threading. Slack is terrible, no disagreement here.
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.
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".
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