Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft
by lmm on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:22PM
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Slack became a much worse experience when they added full threads IMO. Discord's new approach of allowing you to reply to a specific message, but not outright fork the channel, is a much better compromise.
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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft
by judge2020 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:48PM
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this - Discord's approach of allowing you to reply, but having the message show up in the regular conversation flow keeps the feel of an actual conversation.
Screenshot of a reply: https://support.discord.com/hc/article_attachments/360099599... (from https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057382374-R...)
Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft
by remram on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:20PM
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You are assuming that the traffic is low enough that "a single conversation flow" is happening, or (like in your example) that multiple people reply to a single post.
If you have enough people talking past each other, even with the reply feature, it becomes a huge mess. Having a way to only show the messages that are replying to you while you troubleshoot a specific issue is what a thread view enables.