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@cleverdevil nope. I find that slack solves 0 problems, and creates even more.

@Burk Slack itself is a useful tool for me, but the threads feature is just so weird.

@cleverdevil I use them only occasionally. No one else I know does.

I wish I could say no, but some people do

@ddykstal @cleverdevil I love threads, especially on what are meant to be "announcement" channels. Keeps the noise down. I had to use them repeatedly until everyone else slowly came around.

@cleverdevil No. They are terrible. I could manage them if Slack channels simply were actual lists of threads. This wierd hybrid thing where there's the general channel discussion and then also threads is nonsensical.

They make me feel old

@cleverdevil dislike them so much, they hide too much conversation and data. I prefer Flowdock's model of threading colors.

@jack @cleverdevil I think you're right about repetition. Folks need to see how they are useful.

I think they fulfill a need, but perhaps not in an ideal way. I’m not sure how I’d change them, though.

Yes, this. I feel like Slack is basically "OK, boomering" me every time I see a thread.

@cleverdevil I can never figure out when something should be a thread versus in the main channel. So no, they suck.

@canion I feel the same way. The use case just isn't there for me.

I do! Turns Slack into a message board

I find them better than not having them. Baffled that you can’t /me in them though.

I wish they could be disabled / useless & annoying “feature”

They just end up being one more place to look for where those notifications came from or where a conversation continued. They cause chaos during high priority incidents.

If everyone uses threads properly, all info will be in one place and not cluttering the channel where multiple separate conversations are happening at the same time

I mean I guess. But the design is sort of trash IMO. It’s a weird conversation within a conversation. Seems like it would be better handled with DMs or short-lived channels.

‘If everyone uses (mechanism which splits up conversations) all info will be in one place’ is definitely not how I aim to live my life 😋

Actually just “If everyone uses X properly” aaaand you’ve already lost me

DMs and short-lived channels are invite-required, no? A thread is opt in for anyone in the channel, is permanent (depending on your team account...), and doesn’t clutter your channel list

I get the idea, but people don’t generally use them that way. Instead, 90% of threads that I encounter are two people talking for like three messages.

Once I started thinking of Slack channels as a message boards instead of one group convo, my Slack issues have mostly gone away for me. One org I’m in actually requires threading conversations, which works really well.

Perfect

That’s a poor choice of words on my part then

True facts, also, while it doesn’t clutter the channel list, it’s not like it needs help among 200 channels or so, but more pernicious than that, it creates a secondary location to the channel list, the oft overlooked “All threads”, which you’re then trying to find stuff in too

“requires threading conversations” ... blink twice if we need to send rescue

Fair. I bounce between All Threads and All Unreads all day so between those two I get everything. I’m also an Inbox Zero person so ymmv

they're annoying but threading in general is necessary and threading properly is hard... how do you like Twitter threads instead?

They’re pretty half-baked in my opinion. They’re clunky to interact with, and.. no /giphy