Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
by hakfoo on Thursday July 26, 2018 @08:48PM
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I like the message board model, like Basecamp, myself.
* You can respond in a delayed manner and not appear rude.
* Complex stuff can be previewed before submission.
* The subject and thread organization adds more fine-grained control than you usually get with Slack channels. The #team-name channel might have discussions on several topics at once, not all of which affect you, and no easy way to filter them. On a message board, it's easy to break out a new thread even if people are subscribed to it by default.
* Slack search is ugly because you come back two months later and have to pull the info out of a tangled discussion with unrelated stuff in the middle.
* You can respond in a delayed manner and not appear rude.
* Complex stuff can be previewed before submission.
* The subject and thread organization adds more fine-grained control than you usually get with Slack channels. The #team-name channel might have discussions on several topics at once, not all of which affect you, and no easy way to filter them. On a message board, it's easy to break out a new thread even if people are subscribed to it by default.
* Slack search is ugly because you come back two months later and have to pull the info out of a tangled discussion with unrelated stuff in the middle.