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Show HN: Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform
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#42Can’t recommend enough Zulip. First-class topics, tools for organizing messages between streams & topics, open-source self-hostable, no engagement of ML out of the box (but probably possible thanks to Python plugin support), Vim-like keyboard shortcuts.
Looks cool, but unfortunately another company that treats single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement by jacking the price way up to get SAML support. Companies really need to stop doing this.
Single-sign-on is a large and painful feature to develop, that most people don't need, and that the companies that need it are willing to pay for. It's the perfect candidate for a higher-tier pricing structure. This makes much more sense than tiering on a feature that everyone needs.
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#43Something that has always stopped us from migrating away from Slack is the integrations. We have 10s of integrations on Slack and those are a pain to migrate. Any thoughts or plans on how you would support that?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Manish, founder here. On Discord, the bot only picks up Discord threads, not the chats in a channel. Could that be it? Unless there's some issue with sync.
That must be it! I don't really have any threads I don't think. Oh so Struct uses that as boundary to summarize? Makes sense, although a lot of Slack and Discord servers don't really use threads. Like, the golang one in Slack specifically asks people to NOT use threads, out of some usability concern, I think (screen readers or something).
Yeah. We now pick up chats from channels in Slack, and convert them into threads. Somepoint we'd do the same for Discord too.
Chats in channels are too diverse to act like threads. Jury is out on how good those threads look.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Founder of Struct here. I looked at Zulip before starting Struct. And I'm sorry -- I don't think it's the same. Threads in Zulip are really sub-channels, and the idea of a unified feed like "All Threads" doesn't exist -- at least, that was my perception of Zulip. And just looking at the site right now, it feels the same as before. I could be wrong. Struct is different. It's a reimagination of what a chat platform wou…
> unified feed like "All Threads" I don't understand why I'd need or want this. I saw it in the video and was horrified. Multiple feeds updating as I'm watching them is just too much going on. When I'm chatting, I don't want to pay attention to 10 different things at once. I'm most productive when I am working on one task (with a single topic), which may require me to refer back to Slack periodically. Struct looks li…
You could create a focused custom feed. For example, I have one for "tasks assigned to me". That's what I set to when I'm focused working.
That's the beauty right -- you can control and filter what you see. As opposed to channel based interactions, where your boundaries are set in stone on channel creation.
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#46This is awesome. Discord is the worst for trying to search and follow threads of information. Seems like I'm always answering the same questions over and over again.
Discord will inevitably add LLM-based search like Slack AI just announced, and you won't have that problem anymore.
I know Discord is already trying some AI stuff out like Summaries, but AI search doesn't seem like the kind of thing that Discord would add, given their audience and that they took down Clyde AI.
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#47That's one of the best landing pages I've seen recently. Congratulations on the launch!
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#48I think this product is useful only 1) if you have a lot of channels aka if you work in an enterprise setting, and 2) you get ping'ed a lot.
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#49This is one of the first Slack competitors that has caught my attention. I really think you're on to something here. I have one thought after watching the video (other than a generally positive feeling about it): It feels, somehow, less personal. Where Slack rooms felt like digital _rooms_, this gave me the feeling of an office bulletin board. I'm imagining being a new employee at a company that is fully bought in on…
I can imagine a series of useful threads always at the ready for onboarding new people.
But I hear you, ensuring new employees to feel warm and welcomed is crucial for every organization. Especially true for orgs that lean more remote.
Orgs can still use @random channels, @club-channels and you could set up an @annoucements to have spaces for fun links and bulletin materials, and other ways to get to know your peers.
@struct we lean pretty work-focused, we love building. But we should bring the fun too!
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#50I think this product is useful only 1) if you have a lot of channels aka if you work in an enterprise setting, and 2) you get ping'ed a lot.
I'm biased. But, hear me out. We're a team of 3, and we think it's way more useful than Slack would have been.
As mentioned elsewhere, Struct is replacing two chat platforms (team and community), a task management system, a ChatGPT, my personal TODO list, a publicly indexable knowledge-base for us.
It's nice when you don't have to treat your chat platform as an ephemeral, knowledge void.