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Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by ksec »

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…

So I decided to do a search on Flowdock, turns out it is very old. And they have been down for two days [1] last year. Their last blog post are from 2018.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22945633

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by Godel_unicode »

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.

> while our only admin was on vacation

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by Haga »

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…

Grouping by hand or by ai?

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by pihentagy »

kibwen wrote: post #166
erichdongubler wrote: post #164

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Hmmm, I wonder how Flowdock's threading implementation compared with Zulip's?

The Rust developers largely use Zulip as an IRC replacement, and I find its UI to be excellent for my use cases: keeping up with advances to conversations that happened while I wasn't present, fully ignoring conversations that I'm not interested in, and focusing on individual conversations that are happening in parallel. An extremely good experience for such a thoroughly-distributed operation. The only downside is th…

But you cannot get notified about a specific Zulip topic, can you? *That* blocks me to try to switch to it.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by holler »

LegitShady wrote: post #143
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.

> You could actually browse most forums without logging in

Working on a public discussion/chat app that's a bit more forum inspired with no walled garden. If you're interested it's in my profile.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by nature »

pihentagy wrote: post #194
kibwen wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Rust developers largely use Zulip as an IRC replacement, and I find its UI to be excellent for my use cases: keeping up with advances to conversations that happened while I wasn't present, fully ignoring conversations that I'm not interested in, and focusing on individual conversations that are happening in parallel. An extremely good experience for such a thoroughly-distributed operation. The only downside is th…

But you cannot get notified about a specific Zulip topic, can you? *That* blocks me to try to switch to it.

There is a view called "recent topics" for that. E.g. https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#recent_topics

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by rtpg »

ferdowsi wrote: post #6

Is there really no better design for "aside" conversations than this? People lean on Slack threads too much, leading to a confused flow of conversation that makes it extremely difficult to piece together how the discussion was ended or resolved.

Doist's Twist thing is the "real thing".

Forum threads/email convos for focused convos, stream-y chat otherwise. Mixing the two ends up being really messy IMO.

It does mean you gotta kinda move around, but I would kill for Slack to implement an "inbox-y" form of conversations, so I can actually keep track of open loops

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by rkangel »

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…

I actually feel that MS Teams is the best thread implementation (I haven't used Flowdock, but I have used Zulip). The app performance is a little slow which makes it feel slightly clunkier to use, but the UX for a normal Team channels makes everything be in a thread by default, and makes it completely intuitive.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by [deleted] »

techdragon wrote: post #172
TheFreim wrote: post #170

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> 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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