Really 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.
I like threads a lot in the way we use it. With 60+ people in one channel, being able to ask a question and get answers in the thread, while not spamming the channel with replies and potentially interweaving multiple question & answer "threads" is really useful.
If people use threads more, messages in a channel should be less of a mess. From what I’ve seen, only a few use threads and they’re either a moderator or a prominent member.
I love threads. They're lightweight channels. In large, busy channels it allows parallel conversations. I see no reason a thread would be strictly asynchronous or real time. That's an organizational expectation. And anyone who expects real-time responses outside of a call needs to come back down to Earth.
Just to provide a counterpoint, threads are very useful for channels with hundreds of members, so that anyone can ask a question but the responses don't make other questions invisible. In that case, the lack of threads would hide important information.
Threads are an extremely important asset in large channels to maintain organization. Less important in ad-hoc quick conversations in small DM groups for sure. I've never experienced any issues with people not using threads and the UX around it has always seemed fairly smooth to me.
> Threads are horrible, it's where messages go to hide and die because nobody notices them.
Threads are kinda horses-for-courses.
If you've got a 3000+ person organisation, they're useful because all-to-all messaging channels don't scale very well. If you've got a 500-member #linux-users channel you can have multiple discussions going on in different threads without them getting mixed up, and when someone posts about wifi issues some people can jump in to help without every single message alerting all 500 members.
On the other hand, if your organisation only has 30 people? Channels alone are probably all you need.
Nothing is worse than joining a Discord server and finding out it's enormous. You go to any given channel and the discussions are flying by so fast only people who are regulars can catch all the content but even then it's basically just noise.
Thread support was added to alleviate some of the noise problem but in communities that actually use them there's so many threads it's easy to lose track and everywhere else they're basically just strange ways of isolating yourself from the rest of the people in the community.
If there are no threads everyone just has to patiently wait in line, when there is one conversation going on.
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