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Stride - Atlassian's new group messaging and video meeting platform

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Stride is a new way for teams to talk, meet, decide and do. With group chat & direct messaging, voice and video conferencing, and built-in collaboration tools, Stride is a team communication platform from the makers of Hipchat.

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I can't seem to find any screenshots that show off their thread / reply feature. Am I missing it somehow? It is supposed to be that "branch crooked arrow" button? This doesn't seem to solve the problem of everyone's first instinct of "post directly to chat to everyone for everything" and the endless barrage of noise and notifications.
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We do not have threading, nor have we advertised it. Did you see somewhere that makes you think we have it? FWIW, we have tested threading, and it does not solve for the problems we set out to solve with Stride – it created additional noise. The act of fragmenting a single conversation into multiple threads didn't help the entire team get things done, it created more overhead to keep up with your team and more information off in silos.
that's the problem. See Twist
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I have seen Twist – and I'm not convinced it solves for the full breadth of the team communications problems we experience today. That said, I will be interested to see how Twist evolves. There's a sharp team behind that project!
I'd love nothing more than Atlassian to make a great work chat platform. Your screenshots / videos show people posting directly to chat, alerting and notifying everyone without regard, which is the core problem of Slack, HipChat, etc. Please fix this 🙏🏼
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We've put a lot of time and thought (and testing!) into giving you control over what is notifiable activity on a per-conversation basis. Chat is still one of the core communication channels, but we've baked a good default, and all the custom nobs you might need to dial it in. Additionally, we've created "Focus Mode" to quickly turn down all general activity so you can focus on a single task. I can't post a screenshot in PH responses, but if you look at the "Get work done with the freedom to focus" section under the "How it Works" tab on the Stride.com website you can see some visual aids for how you might customize your world. Or, for a TL;DR form, here's *how* it works: • Set an individual conversation's importance level for notifications – you, you+team, everything • Chose how notifications appear to you – sound? mobile? etc. • Set your presence if you need to be away • Engage Focus Mode if you just need some time to zero in on a task Very interested in your thoughts on that ^^, it's one of our core goals to solve for the problem you called out in your comment.
hipchat.com redirects to stride.com, so I'm guessing this is a full on replacement? Regardless, congrats on the launch!! I'm a huge fan of the Atlassian suite.
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Yes, eventually. For the HC Cloud offering. We recommend that all HipChat customers upgrade to Stride. We'll gradually start moving teams over from HC in the fall. HipChat will continue to work as it does today until your team upgrades to Stride. After upgrading, HipChat will remain in 'read-only' mode so that you can reference your add-on configuration in HipChat and receive notifications for those add-ons that are not yet in Stride. If you are on Server, HipChat Data Center will continue to to be our self-hosted team communication offering. Atlassian will also be doubling down on HipChat Data Center to provide our self-hosted customers with the tool and experience to meet their specific needs. Look out for some announcements them at next week's Atlassian Summit!
I really think the Decisions feature is interesting. Seems like a good way to conclude on a chat discussion. I
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Trust me, it is! And it's great to be able to quickly review what happened in the last day or week to catch up or refresh your memory.
I really love this one!
Congrats and the entire Atlassian team. Really excited to try this out when it's ready. I particularly love the focus on helping you take action on the conversations you are having in Stride with decisions and action items. Kudos and best of luck with the roll-out!
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Many thanks! We're beyond excited – and it makes it even better that you are excited too. Looking forward to your thoughts when you do try it out!
Why do talented and funded teams create something that already exists?
Because there's a huge market for it

Why not improving hipchat instead of going off a tangent and releasing a totally different product?

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A good idea

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why not improving hipchat instead

My team had access to the platform before launch and I have to say communication has very much improved. Using Stand.Bot (an integration) allows us to never forget process and automatically asks for updates.

Great use of the available space.

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Nice UX. Marketplace is getting ready with some great integrations like bots to automate processes.

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Not sure yet.

The "integrated Actions and Decisions" piece sounds promising. Slack threads tend to get very diffuse. If Stride can force and record decisions, that would be a nice improvement.
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Glad to hear it! I can say that after only a short time using them, I can't go back to life without them and I know others feel the same. It's fantastic in my squad rooms, and has proven incredibly useful in 1:1 convos.
Tasks is really helpful. One of my frustrations with Slack is that it's easy to forget what you commit to in there.
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Glad to hear you think so. We've spent some time working with them now, and it's been wonderful
May be worth checking out !! - 'Convert any Slack message to a task. Hit the zap emoji, and Busybot will turn that message into a task'
the killer solution we use for task management from Slack is especially because you get nagged to follow up WITHIN Slack
Really liked HipChat but was not as easy to use as Slack. Can't wait to try out Stride, this is the best news I could have hoped for from HipChat improvements.
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