Discord Launches Threads • Hacker News Board

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by Gravityloss » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 9:54 AM UTC

I_AM_A_SMURF wrote: post #106

afavour wrote: post #104

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> 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…

Same here, if you don't hide the thread then what's the point? Some technical discussions in our team board last for hundred of messages, without threads it would be really hard to follow the channel, especially with multiple discussions going at the same time.

If you've used Flowdock, the point is that you can focus by going into the thread, by but you can also just view all the messages as they come in so that you're not missing anything on a channel.

People also learn to use threads quite fast. You can rethread comments if they don't have a reply yet (they are not in any thread yet).

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by marc3842h » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 2:17 PM UTC

VRay wrote: post #128

cjsawyer wrote: post #83

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I’d gladly share that info with my gaming friends, but on not on professional/work servers

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…

I work around this problem by running multiple Discord clients on different channels:

- Discord - Discord PTB - Discord Canary

The clients can all be open at the same time and can have different accounts logged in.

Re: Discord Launches Threads

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Post by aezart » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 6:04 PM UTC

Really hate this. It's going to give me a bunch of anxiety about missing out on conversations because they were in a thread I didn't notice instead of the normal channel. Would love to be able to turn off the feature for an entire server.

My IRL friends and I are in a server where we all have admin permission, so even if I turn off the threading permissions for @everyone, we can still make them.