+2 better idea: no standups.

We did written standups for about 2 months, they just died, everyone stopped doing them.

I think discipline is important, but I can also see how they must not have been adding enough value for them to remain a thing.

I love the idea.. daily is often too much or not enough. Blogs are written whenever something needs to be said.

I prefer M-Th standups, hardstop at 15 minutes, with a weekly owner that rotates.

That way I can get quick heads up and plan to ask others for assistance, as needed. Get all the shouldertaps done quickly.

We've recently switched to written standups with threads organized by sprint goals. It's worked out fantastically so far.

Slack threads? I'd be interested to hear more about how this works on your team.

Yes every morning someone posts a comment for each sprint goal, and people post updates in the comment threads.

It would be nice if we had bot to automate posting the original comments, but we haven’t got around to that yet.

This sounds like it might work nicely with zulip's topics feature (explained in the carousel on the homepage: https://zulip.com/)