Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation

Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by matchbok on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:25AM (#20229866)

Crazy. I can't stand the software.

Experiment for slack fans: Start talking about something in a channel with ~20 people. Then ask a friend to ask another question in the same channel. What happens? A mess. You now have 2 conversations modeled with a single stream of single-line messages, with no context. One someone starts a conversation in a channel every single other user in that channel now has to wait. (or risk being pushed up past the fold, which people never scroll to)

Chat just isn't how work gets done. Or how knowledge is transferred and, most importantly, retained.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by garrett_oh on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:36AM (#20229916)

Isn’t this what threads are for?

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by mamurphy on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:48AM (#20229966)

I've only used discord -- do threads exist on slack? Or is GP right and lack of threads is a major downfall of chat apps, including slack?

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by garrett_oh on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:03AM (#20230043)

Slack does have threads. Everyone at my company is quick to remind those who don’t use them.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by kbyatnal on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:43AM (#20230230)

Slack threads feel very much like an afterthought though. They never get used at my company (and for good reason).

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