Has this launched fully? I can't find 'start a thread'. I also wonder why they didn't just use a simple CTA like "reply" to 'start a thread'. It seems more natural to me.
As most of you, I'm excited to try it. I just wonder if the UI will be effective in getting colleagues to adopt it. I find, for example, that very few people use 'comments' when discussing files, which has a similar UI. They just type into the main chat box. It seems that there is some friction in using the right column, so I imagine conversations will be split between a 'thread' and separate replies. Nevertheless, I like how they have given users the option of a quick, lightweight, side conversation.
Another idea might be to support some text input way of linking messages, similar to "@ mentions", but maybe like "re:(thread name)". There is a design challenge to cleanly communicate and specify 'thread names' but could be an interesting power-user feature. I find myself already typing in "re:(blah)" when trying to discuss multiple things in a channel.
@rahulcap Per the blog post, Threads are progressively rolling out over the next week or so. You'll get them soon!
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Interesting it appears now for some of my orgs
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@rahulcap This only just rolled out for me today. I too would love to see some sort of custom naming feature to help contextualize threads (i.e., for those kinds of threads that may be recurring conversations versus one-off side chats)
This made my day. Cool that not only did they add threaded messaging to Slack (yay!), but that @stewart submitted it to PH. Nice.
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A dream come true! Wait, it's not available yet?
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@haoyangnz Looks to be available in the web version not in the desktop app on mac.
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@joshenglish I see. I wonder how the desktop app renders threads made on the web version.
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@haoyangnz Actually after testing another org it only appeared for one of my teams and to get it in the desktop for that one org I had to restart slack.
We've explored a number of workarounds with bots or integrations, but native Slack thread support was the dream. Plus, it looks incredibly well executed 👍 Excited to start using it 😄
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