Threads are a universal mistake. I wish I could turn them off of every chat service I've used that implements them.
Discord Launches Threads
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#72Threads 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.
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#73Threads are great, and I've been working with them in testing for a few months now. One issue is that many major API libraries (such as discord.py) don't support them in a stable version yet. I'm not going to enable Threads fully in my 300k+ member server until our custom moderation bot supports them. This isn't Discord's fault really though, I know library devs have had a lot of heads up too, it just takes time. Apart from that, Threads are great and I use them for so many things, from temporary but long threads for specific members to join for staff training, to busy threads for events like streams. They've been built with community in mind, and feedback from moderators has been gathered every step of the way. If only more companies developed features while in touch with the people they'd affect...
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#74I don't know how it's possible, but I cannot wait for the day where I don't have to deal with "chats". Telegram, iMessage, LinkedIn, emails, discord, this app, that app. I simrace with a 60 year old man and no matter how much we try, he cannot wrap his head around how to use discord.
I don't think that's reasonable and it's very unlikely that "chats" are going away. I've been using chat apps since that person was in their mid-to-late 30s. Newsgroups were around a decade before that. The relatives I have in their 90s know how to use Hangouts. Being 60 isn't an excuse in my opinion
Back about 18y ago there was, er, Trillian (?) and you could have all your chats in one UI at least. If I were in charge chat apps would have to use federation with an open interchange format (RIP XMPP).
I think XMPP and Trillian might still be going but once Facebook, Microsoft and Google stopped playing nicely ...
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#75This makes me sad. Threads suck in chat.
Why?
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is already a setting which prevents people not on your friends list from contacting you, as well as a setting limiting who can request to add you as a friend. What more do you need?
I think it's a case of "I don't want this kid to change these features unless there is direct parental approval". Sure those settings exist, but unless there's some policy way to prevent them from being changed it's pointless.
I think traditional parenting is the control you're after - worked in our house so far. "Weirdos on the internet will send you disturbing images that give you nightmares, try and encourage you to do stupid things that will hurt you, try and get money of you, or damage our computer; I've set it so you can't make friends with them nor receive messages - if you want to add anyone, like school friends, that you know in real life that's fine, ask me first. If you mess with the settings I'll have to uninstall it (block it, whatever)."
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#77Really happy for this, threads are a life-saver and a completely required tool for conversations. The linear conversation works, but then when you have 10+ people all vying to speak to each other and you have six different conversations it become a mess to keep up with. This is a happy change.
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#78Is 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.
I think we need to scrap the concept of a channel, and everything should be a thread instead.
You can categorize/tag threads (why not automatically based on groups of users) and they can show up as a feed similar on HN/SO/Reddit, but in a sidebar so you can easily swap between them.
If you're imagining how that would look, no need to look further than an email client. The advantage of it being threads with tags/categories is that it makes it easy to move one thread from one category/tag to another (for example moving the conversation from DEV to SRE) without loosing context/history.
Then there's no aside conversation, because everything is an aside.
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#79Off topic but here's another feature that really shouldn't take 2 years to implement - only showing "In game" status on some servers, vs the current all-or-nothing approach.
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600483...
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#80These look like a weird mix of Slack threads (temporary (though not enforced in Slack), written in sidebar) and Zulip threads/topics (named, available in the channel list), though... with downsides compared to both (for example, you can't forward messages to original channel like you could on Slack). Feels a bit awkward, but time will tell. My main concern right now is with discoverability and moderation - it seems a…
Given they show up in the channel list as "sub-channels", discoverability and moderation should be straight forward and this blog post devotes an entire section to Moderation tools, so I'm cautiously optimistic on that part at least. (Especially in comparisons to Slack's Thread moderation which was rough in what little I tried to do of it.)
The catch is that they only show up in the channel list if you've "joined" the thread. They're otherwise just hidden behind the button up top (or you need to hit the backscroll).