[smoyer]

I don't see how you can ever get something named carrot out of beta (carotene). Your product looks a lot like Yammer (which we have in addition to slack, XMPP and email) in that there are threads. Threads make Yammer better than Slack but there are still two things that I hate (and that Google/Apache Wave got/gets right): 1) Comment threads are hierarchical so side conversations can happen in-line but also be out of the way. 2) Blips that I've read or that I'm not interested in can be collapsed.

The best conversations in Slack should really be a conversation in an issue tracker. Unfortunately, nobody will see those comments when they look at the issue. One issue I see with the carrot UI is that there's not really enough room to have a real conversation in the comments side-panel.