Great, now we'll get a bunch of people bugging everyone to keep conversations in threads.
Discord Launches Threads
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Re: Discord Launches Threads
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
It wouldn't be a problem, except that Discord takes over your fucking computer and doesn't let you sign into different accounts via private browser windows when you have the client running Another problem with Discord is that its anti-spam measures are making it harder and harder to create an anonymous account There's no point in having an anonymous Discord account if you have to use the same account for everything i…
> doesn't let you sign into different accounts via private browser windows when you have the client running What do you mean here? I have multiple discord accounts that I have logged in at once. One on the client, one in browser window, and another in a private window, working just fine. > Another problem with Discord is that its anti-spam measures are making it harder and harder to create an anonymous account Haven'…
They have a pretty extensive black list of email providers from what I can tell. Throwaway email accounts or services like Trashmail are pretty much completely blocked from what I can tell.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Will Discord changes their single account system/policy? It's very annoying to use single account for various use other than only gaming community. I think this policy is a bigger blocker than lack of threads.
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#174For threads, channels, messages, posts, whatever you call them. It’s really a question of how much nesting do you really need?
If your conversation channel flows like a blur and is “chatty” then there’s probably not a subject line for each one. If it’s more like a forum with divergent topics then you need some nesting, and every solution for nesting has the same essential function just with a different UI.
It’s like implementing, tabs, pages, sheets, screens, windows, or layers, in the end you’ve done the same thing - boxed content and made it selectively displayed.
Re: Discord Launches Threads
#175For threads, channels, messages, posts, whatever you call them. It’s really a question of how much nesting do you really need? If your conversation channel flows like a blur and is “chatty” then there’s probably not a subject line for each one. If it’s more like a forum with divergent topics then you need some nesting, and every solution for nesting has the same essential function just with a different UI. It’s like…
Depends on the server, imho. The range of activity in discord instances varies wildly, you need different tools to make sense of it depending on the server.
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#176Element (Matrix client) also announced that they will be adding threading soon. [1]
[1]: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-bo...
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because it was designed to be a real time chat. When you're having a group conversation, there are no threads. You just keep track in your head what the topics are and who said them and then figure out how the next sentence applies. Discord was modeled after this interaction (and IRC, which was modeled after this interaction).
When you're having a large-group "stream of conversation" in meatspace (in the lobby of convention hall, say), subgroups within the conversation will break off temporarily to form smaller "huddles" that step slightly away from the group, focusing on one-another rather than the group, to have a temporary "sidebar" conversation. Content from a "sidebar" conversation is usually taken far enough away from the larger grou…
It's not the same thing though - the sidebar usually gradually merges back into the main conversation, and certainly you can't resume a sidebar from a week ago and have it magically reemerge with the same group of people.
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#178The 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…
Another really good implementation is Quill (quill.chat). It has a "room type" option where a room is either threaded or free for all. In a threaded room it's a little more message-board like, every top-level post has a topic and such, so it starts a thread. In a free-for-all room it's basically the same as Slack.
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#179Fun fact: They granted create threads to everybody by default but granted manage threads to nobody by default. So we had moderators who could delete channels, delete create and modify roles and role permissions, and delete messages as well as ban/kick users, but couldn't manage or delete threads. "public threads" show up in the main channel list to everybody as a sub channel, and everybody had permission to create an…
This is obviously bad and I agree that they should have put a better default in place, but this bit isn't true: ""public threads" show up in the main channel list to everybody as a sub channel". In fact, you have to join a thread for it to show up in your channel list, so there's an opt-in interaction required. (or somebody could @mention you or manually add you to the thread, leaving a system message indicating they did so)
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 fen…
Personally, I'm waiting for Matrix to implement Zulip-like threads (and a client that looks like Quassel).