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Unslacking Tideways Company

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Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

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Structured threads vs an unending ticker tape of noise.

Why can't you have threads in a chat app? This article is really, "We couldn't adapt our processes to Slack, so we blamed the tool and replaced a chat app with processes, because we're special snowflakes and how could anything Not Invented Here apply to our totally unique problems of communication?" Sure, they ended up with a series of other tools to cover their workflows, the thing they "invented" was how those tool…

Zulip has topics and it's absolutely amazing, but I still don't think it helps reference years old messages.

Re: Unslacking Tideways Company

#162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why can't you have threads in a chat app? This article is really, "We couldn't adapt our processes to Slack, so we blamed the tool and replaced a chat app with processes, because we're special snowflakes and how could anything Not Invented Here apply to our totally unique problems of communication?" Sure, they ended up with a series of other tools to cover their workflows, the thing they "invented" was how those tool…

Zulip has topics and it's absolutely amazing, but I still don't think it helps reference years old messages.

You can reference years old messages.

For example https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/stream/3-backend/topic/Vagran...

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