Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by Closi on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:46PM (#23807242)

I think this is actually a useful design feature - if the thread didn’t move and it was up in the message chain and I wasn’t tagged in a message then I would miss it, but as I want to still read everything in the channel, the fact it comes to the bottom of the channel means I see it.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by lstamour on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:35PM (#23807543)

Apps like Slack solve this by having a dedicated “Threads” channel where you can see new messages in threads you’ve participated in. There’s also the concept of an “Activity” view where you can see recent activity in a channel, if I recall correctly. There’s no need to re-arrange message order or rewrite history to draw attention to new messages. Worst case, just insert a message visible only to you with a link to the thread when updates occur.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by Closi on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:55AM (#23809669)

Makes sense, but all that is a design trade-off.

If you do it like teams does then you don’t need an activity view and a dedicated threads channel.

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