Slack wants to become the 'long-term memory' for organizations

Re:Slack wants to become the 'long-term memory' for organiza... by michaelt on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @07:22AM (#40787076)

> Threads are horrible, it's where messages go to hide and die because nobody notices them.

Threads are kinda horses-for-courses.

If you've got a 3000+ person organisation, they're useful because all-to-all messaging channels don't scale very well. If you've got a 500-member #linux-users channel you can have multiple discussions going on in different threads without them getting mixed up, and when someone posts about wifi issues some people can jump in to help without every single message alerting all 500 members.

On the other hand, if your organisation only has 30 people? Channels alone are probably all you need.

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Re:Slack wants to become the 'long-term memory' for organiza... by hu3 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:34AM (#40788452)

I think Discord found the sweet spot with Discussions. It's the right mix of chat + forum for me:

https://i.imgur.com/XxV5b2Q.png

Programming discord servers usually have chat rooms like #general and then forum channels (like threads but organized).

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