the "email-killer" takes another step toward just actually being email. nice.

I think it's great, we often have long conversations about feedbacks, with several subjects , and I always found it difficult to react on previous messages.

Whaat?? So real-time chat is not the silver-bullet that will solve all communication issues in the workplace? Can't believe it

We've been discussing this feature for quite a while at my team. It gets really messy when, sometimes, two discussions are happening at the same time in the same channel and boom.. crossroads of replies!

In my opinion, it will benefit mostly distributed teams.

I've been working remotely (8h+ timezone away) and it's really hard to keep up with the discussions of the locals (people in office). Specially those long ones with hundreds of replies. When you want to participate, the debate had already ended or people were sleeping or the "thread" is lost in so many cross-messages-replies that you eventually give up. This will keep the thread fresh. Long enough to everyone, independently of their location in the globe, to participate.

Yes, I'm not talking only about work, those threads normally have proper channels/groups and it's easy to keep up with them (although it will be also great for feedback on designs).

I'm talking about being part of the everyday life of a team: rants about politics, football, tech nerdery or replying to a cat video with whole thread of cat videos!

So my a priori opinion is: you did it again Slack! Thanks! Now let's try it out and see how it goes!

The inevitable capitulation came and in a form that ignores all the learning previously done by others. Zulip has a much better threading system that works great and it's been a while. Slack should have just copied it wholesale.

I recently only stared using skack because it was the preferred platform for a project that Im working on and it's a mess!

1. The onboarding doesn't make any sense! You can't sign in to your account without first joining a channel (perhaps there's a way?) . This makes zero sense! You should be able to sign in to you accound then add channels later.

2. This is supposed to be an "email killer" yet, the first thing it did was flood my email with notification until I turned it off. Why isn't it off by default?

3. The interface is jarring, just too much is going on.

4.If you sign in to the desktop app, you have to manually add all the re-add all the channels. Perhaps I didn't do something right.

I'm personally very excited about this. Sure, I agree about the clutter, I think it could be laid out a bit more intuitively, but I've been waiting for something like this. Working within a company with 150+ people, and in channels that span multiple disciplines, it can be difficult to follow multiple threads and find the feedback pertaining to specific questions efficiently and easily. I'm excited to try it out!

Just looking at the concepts, I feel this just adds a bunch of clutter to the interface. I understand the benefits of seeing a specific conversation, but for a real-time chat application, it seems out of place.

Most of my Slack channels have less than 20 people. Perhaps, this is more of a benefit to larger companies?

No threads was really the only reason for our company (200+ people) not to use Slack. We've been using Flowdock for the last couple of years, which has threads. We've been saying that as soon as Slack releases this feature we're gonna switch, and i'm so glad they finally did! Already transitioning...

Looks like a complicated way to implement a message board. PHPBB does threads much neater.

Looks messy. Let's see how it goes.