[sleepinseattle]

I appreciate that the UI is fresh. I'm tired of the trend of desktop apps not taking advantage of larger screens and instead just shoe-horning mobile "feed" designs into a floating window.

Not convinced that tagging is better than channels for large teams. Seems like there would be an explosion of tags to keep track of.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on Teams.

[Jestar342]

@mentions could include groups/teams, I guess. Not sure about Braid but they are a thing in slack.

I think a conversation-first comms platform is a brilliant idea (though not sure this fits Braid). Instead of channels that can languish and/or have multiple conversations all jumbled up, you get a new window for a new conversation, even if it's the same group of people. With easy searching and archiving I think it could be great. If it isn't a thing in Braid or wherever else maybe I should shut my mouth and start a product

[rafd]

"multiple conversations all jumbled up" is exactly what initially motivated me to start hacking on Braid.

Braid's search is certainly something that can be improved. In practice, it's actually pretty rare to have to fish for something in the archives, because you tend to keep relevant conversations open until you're done with them. (We also have "starring", like in Gmail, so that you can move conversations out of your inbox, but still keep them easily accessible).

On a day-to-day, a good "search" experience might actually be more relevant for slicing-and-dicing through your Inbox (ie. triaging the firehose of daily messages), rather than digging up old messages.

[Jestar342]

I use searching in slack relatively frequently for things like snippets for obscure (yet unexpectedly needed again in the future) shell scripts, or small data items like email addresses or Ids that were sent in a message about a bug or other support issue that my manager/colleague is now asking about 3 weeks later.

[tom_mellior]

> multiple conversations all jumbled up

The way we use Slack at work, most conversations spin out to threads, and there is no jumbling up. If people in your organization aren't disciplined enough for Slack threads, I can't imagine that those people would be disciplined enough for keeping conversations separate either.

[athenot]

Disclosure: I work on Webex Teams.

I feel that this functionality would be quite useful, but easily integrated into existing clients by doing "Saved Searches", "Smart Spaces" or whatever we want to call it.

That could lead to a feed with just the relevant tags / keywords as a stream. And clicking on them would lead one back to the context.

In the mean time, we can accomplish this with a bot. It's not as elegant but I think it would work. Not just in Webex Teams but the others as well. Will dig into that and see what I can do...

[mey]

Yeah I can see this working up to a certain team size but not beyond. Maybe around 60 people? At some point #hashtag_x is going to be an overloaded tag for to many teams essentially.