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by benterix 657 days ago
> Slack threads are a failure imo

For me they are the reason I use Slack. They allow us to have a meaningful conversation and not overlook anything important and at the same time allow interested people to dive into more detailed discussions. For comparison, I use Teams for another project and this is madness - people actively avoid discussion in order not to force the other team members to spend too much time scrolling the screen, and search is abysmal. (Note I'm using these for work, maybe if it was for other types of communication I might not care.)

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> not overlook anything important

How do you know though? Because...

> and at the same time allow interested people to dive into

Discussions often start out one way and then go off to something else. People can't know ahead of time if they should dive in or not. That's one of the problems.