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Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by lovegoblin »

wly_cdgr wrote: post #131

Remind me the difference between Slack and Discord at this point? "Default theme" is the big one that comes to mind It's fine, not every product needs to be super original I guess, but it's gotten to the point where choosing one over the other is barely even a statement about your identity anymore. Although I guess most people do both: Slack for work, Discord for friends. It's boring when those two experiences are so…

> it's gotten to the point where choosing one over the other is barely even a statement about your identity anymore

Why on earth would I want it to be?

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by MrStonedOne »

judge2020 wrote: post #132
i_am_proteus wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happened to me, moderating a server, while our only admin was on vacation. I was able to remove "create thread" permissions from the default role, effectively turning threads off. But first I had to add a new role to grant myself those permissions. I also had to ask people who had created threads to please delete them because I still can't.

> But first I had to add a new role to grant myself those permissions Assuming you're an Administrator, it's covered by that.

They aren't.

Its a common system to only have the server owner and maybe 1 or 2 other people with the administrator permission.

I personally run a 5k user discord with only me as the admin, and like 90 mods who can do varying levels of things.

Why discord didn't make it default to on for people with manage_messages i don't understand.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by LegitShady »

Shadonototro wrote: post #8

they should have sold to microsoft they are out of ideas, it's becoming a bloated product (it was already tbh) forums+IRC here we go agane IRC #1 for me, i sometimes use discord, but i don't it's not always open anymore

Forums were 1000x better. You could actually browse most forums without logging in, and they were search indexable. I feel like there is a lot of information locked behind unsearchable discord that I will never see. If trying to build a community everything that goes to discord that could have been a forum post is tying your community to some company that makes messaging software instead of your own forum.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by mdoms »

Slack threads are, without a doubt, the worst UI I can imagine for this feature. This Discord implementation looks only slightly less bad. Threads are not necessary for this product category - we have channels for that.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by Multicomp »

remexre wrote: post #97
binarymax wrote: post #28

The ideal thread implementation is in Flowdock (which not many people have heard of or use), but it's really the best of both worlds. Everything is a single stream of messages, and you can optionally group things as threads. There is a really nice blending of the two. Here's their implementation and you can see how well this works in practice. http://blog.flowdock.com/2017/08/31/the-1-customer-request-h... Far far be…

Zulip approximately does this too, right?

It does. Zulip calls what Discord and Slack refer to as "channels", "streams", and what Discord calls "threads", "topics".

Zulip's superior topic UX was why I went with it over Slack & Discord. Now Discord has feature-parity there and even more with 'private' topics/threads. I have to create a separate channel/stream if I want some topics to be private.

So now, since my users love Discord so much, I'm going to be fending off requests to move over to Discord, where the conversation data is locked in and cannot be self-hosted or exported.

Good for Discord, but I admit I'm not looking forward to said conversations.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by neuronexmachina »

afavour wrote: post #104
binarymax wrote: post #28

The ideal thread implementation is in Flowdock (which not many people have heard of or use), but it's really the best of both worlds. Everything is a single stream of messages, and you can optionally group things as threads. There is a really nice blending of the two. Here's their implementation and you can see how well this works in practice. http://blog.flowdock.com/2017/08/31/the-1-customer-request-h... Far far be…

> abominations like slack - which hides streams of conversation behind a wall, making the UX terrible. I'm not usually a defender of Slack but this is one of the things I _like_ about Slack threads. Typically in our rooms every discussion is a thread and if I'm not concerned with that particular discussion there's only ever one message and notification I need to dismiss. If I _am_ concerned with it I can opt in to re…

I'm sure this is an atypical use case, but I found the hidden threads really useful for creating spoiler threads about TV shows/movies/etc. All discussion about the topic can stay inside the thread, and folks who want to avoid spoilers can simply avoid clicking on the thread.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by movedx »

npunt wrote: post #72
gentleman11 wrote: post #51

Threads are great for helping you to actively ignore a discussion, but discord is a casual discussion app. Threads make it harder and weirder for people to chime in halfway through or to catch up on what people have been saying. Channels are used to group conversation topics that some people might want to ignore. I’d rather not have threads

> discord is a casual discussion app One way to keep that reputation is to not deploy features that enable more professional use cases. Perhaps they want to be more than a casual app? I personally like threads, they are a very minor bump in app complexity that can significantly improve context reassembly - the primary issue with chat apps.

> One way to keep that reputation is to not deploy features that enable more professional use cases. Perhaps they want to be more than a casual app?

They do, hence their recent rebranding that resulted in less of a "for gamers" image :)

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by movedx »

arkitaip wrote: post #52
gentleman11 wrote: post #51

Threads are great for helping you to actively ignore a discussion, but discord is a casual discussion app. Threads make it harder and weirder for people to chime in halfway through or to catch up on what people have been saying. Channels are used to group conversation topics that some people might want to ignore. I’d rather not have threads

Discord is after Slack's market share and offering threads makes sense in many contexts where the discussion isn't casual.

I'm not certain why you're being downvoted, but you're right. Their recent rebranding demonstrates this.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by chejazi »

asah wrote: post #146

am I the only one who just thinks Reddit/Disqus threads are the way to go? (collapsable and deep-linkable) what am I missing?

> (collapsable and deep-linkable)

I see other major differences. Discord and other chat-apps invite much more real time participation than the other two you just mentioned. Also discord you have to be logged in to be part of a server, not much casual lurking going on.

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