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Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by e12e »

Alex3917 wrote: post #59
mistaken wrote: post #15

Hmm. It seems that these chat applications are more and more becoming like a polished webmail system. Now they've introduced threads, it's searchable forever, you can mail erm. I mean send messages to individuals or even groups. This new technology is amazing. Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with…

> Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with organized information. I'm the co-founder of https://www.fwdeveryone.com , which implements the same sort of functionality on top of email. This way you can capture both the knowledge created within your organization, and also conversations between your cowo…

Looks interesting. But from a qursory glance it appears to work with Gmail, and not with email?

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by Alex3917 »

e12e wrote: post #71
Alex3917 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with organized information. I'm the co-founder of https://www.fwdeveryone.com , which implements the same sort of functionality on top of email. This way you can capture both the knowledge created within your organization, and also conversations between your cowo…

Looks interesting. But from a qursory glance it appears to work with Gmail, and not with email?

Right now the person uploading the thread needs to be using gmail or a Google Apps account. We started there because there are 1.1 billion daily active users, but in the future it will work with other email service providers.

Being able to use DKIM and SPF to authenticate threads is part of our value proposition, and a key part of the value proposition of email in general. (For example, being able to prove that you agreed on X project requirements with a certain person on a certain date.) Doing this type of authentication requires every message in a thread, not just the last one, so the most pragmatic way to meet this requirement is to work with email service providers with available APIs. The alternative is storing the entire contents of your inbox, but this doesn't make sense until we're ready to roll out our enterprise offering.

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by maitrik »

I have actually thought about this idea before and really like what they are trying to do. But I do not like the idea of installing one more app and adopting one more platform.

Why not just use existing infrastructure of emails and integrate with that nicely? The channels on Twist could be folders on gmails (with google integration at first) and users could reply to threads from their favorite email client. If they want to use a dedicated app they could easily install the app.

I think this would help them with growth a lot more since it would use the existing infrastructure of emails. Of course, it doesn't solve the notifications problem that they are trying to solve but that's what the app is for.

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by Jaruzel »

lillesvin wrote: post #64
amix wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just use email? This was asked by a ton of people and we have addressed it here: https://help.twistapp.com/hc/articles/115003654589 Email is great and we are fans of it, but not for internal team communication.

The question that immediately came to my mind was, "why not NNTP?"

I see what you mean with this. I think NNTP is still a great protocol for discussions, it's just that over the years it got a bad rap for being a warez/porn haven.

The server/client mechanism is robust and scalable. With a good client UI, it could be turned into quite a smart social/work platform.

I've been toying with attempting such a NNTP client, but it's way down on my list of projects.

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by Jaruzel »

mdekkers wrote: post #29

again? this was on HN just recently, but now it is "mindful" - said it then, and will say it again, it looks like email, and find that the hassle of yet another communications tool not worth it in this case (basically email with a default "reply-to-all" permanently jammed in place).

It was? I specifically searched HN for 'twist' and for the URL before posting - couldn't find it.

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by mdekkers »

Jaruzel wrote: post #76
mdekkers wrote: post #29

again? this was on HN just recently, but now it is "mindful" - said it then, and will say it again, it looks like email, and find that the hassle of yet another communications tool not worth it in this case (basically email with a default "reply-to-all" permanently jammed in place).

It was? I specifically searched HN for 'twist' and for the URL before posting - couldn't find it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586390

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by desireco42 »

bgentry wrote: post #37
desireco42 wrote: post #25

Slack makes hard for companies to charge money for these apps. I think it is cool but probably not enough reason to make people to move. One thing that would make me consider it, if I could open multiple windows at the same time for example.

You can open multiple windows at the same time: https://cl.ly/1C0q0C022o1X/Screen%20Shot%202017-06-21%20at%2...

That is useful. Thanks.
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