[insightcheck]

Slack also lets users easily make a group chat. In my experience, backed up by [1], Discord requires you to "Friend" members of the group chat before it lets you create the chat (requiring the user to send out a friend request, then wait for an acceptance, before starting the chat).

You could argue that group conversations are best suited for new channels, but I've personally had a lot of value from quick group chats in my experience.

[1] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/223657667-Grou...

[dmonitor]

Discord also has threads, which are incredibly useful. Basically a short-lived subchannel that people can join. They fill a similar role to group chats.

[tehnub]

Discord doesn't have threads* though, does it? To me that's one of the most important features of Slack. I've tried following discussions in Discord, and it's infuriating; there doesn't seem to be a way to look at a message's replies — you can only follow threads "backwards".

* https://slack.com/help/articles/115000769927-Use-threads-to-...

[twic]

Discord has a feature called threads, but it works differently to any other feature called threads anywhere else. You can pick an existing comment, create a thread starting at that comment, give that thread a name, and it works like a mini-channel - people can post comments in the thread, and they appear there, and not in the channel (there is no option to also post a message to the channel). Threads appear in the sidebar under their parent channels, and there's some UI to show that a comment has a thread hanging off it. After some period of inactivity, threads are archived, and no longer appear, but you can find them somehow.

We use them now and then on the gang group chat, but they don't feel as comfortable as Slack threads. I'm not sure why.

It's a bit weird that you name threads, rather than just replying to a root comment.

Discord also now has a thing called "forums", which is basically a highly mutated channel that works like a bulletin board. People make posts rather than comments, and there is a reply chain off each post. The structure is fundamentally the same as comments and threads, but it's laid out very differently.