[dmarlow]

I haven't looked too deeply into emailio or front, but the solution to me looks a lot more like a mix of reddit and discourse (community/forum) than anything else. I'd love to see something that looks and feels like a forum than IM/chat. Systems like Slack are great for quick collaboration, but not ideal for persisting and disseminating information across diverse/large teams and organizations. I want to go to my messaging platform and see the topics that have been started and the discussions within them. This reduces all of the banter and chatter that endlessly goes one each day that just adds to the noise. I can go on and on, but maybe someday I'll get to see what I'm envisioning come to life.

[kitd]

The best workplace communication tool I used was effectively just a Usenet newsreader. Ie, topic-based threaded shared email. With a good client that shows eg the number of new messages on a thread, or only unreads etc, ie standard email stuff, nothing else comes close IMO to that for efficiency and clarity.

I'd add in IM for quick 1-to-1 chats but that's all.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Usenet doesn't actually have threading. It's just a hueristic hack generated by clients.

[martinesko36]

That sounds really cool. As a kid I built my own PHP forum system and have great memories from early internet forums. Bringing that to workspace is a really interesting idea. One of my fundamental problems with Slack and any new method of communication is, if you already use email daily do you really want another feed that you have to check? So, combining the workspace forum as a Subreddit or a Discord server, services which people perhaps already use, is a perfect solution! We may try this for Emailio's employees down the line by making a private subreddit. Thanks for the idea!

[adyus]

I Ctrl-F'ed for Twist, made by the team at Todoist, but couldn't find it.

It has a way to go, but I found it the right mix of persistent, long-form discussion and decision making using Threads, and sync communication using Messages. It's the best of both worlds, if you can educate a team to use it properly.

[Aeolun]

I really wish we could self host Twist. I’d happily pay up for their license.

[fmpwizard]

We have been using http://twist.com for several months and it sounds very close to what you described. You create a thread with a title and a message and replies are threaded.

[mathnmusic]

Is Zulip Chat close to what you have in mind?

[dmarlow]

I just looked it up briefly and I like the idea of topics, but I think there could be too many and it could become messy quickly. Certainly on the right track though.

[Throwaway1771]

It doesn't capture the original questions, but good organizations use a self-hosted internal wiki for this.