You mean new slack? https://slackhq.com/simpler-more-organized-slack

Ripcord is your friend

@U08TV6CTC but why did they do it lol, lets stick an extra bar to the top. It just looks ugly to me. Have you found it useful?

The search bar no. But being able to group channels into folders looks interesting

Yeah when discord did that it was really helpful

I don't know why people don't just use discord really. Its free and works very easily.

I think the “gamer” focus puts businesses off

!! I was wondering the same yesterday

I have heard "discord has a bad reputation" from one business already

which is a shame considering how much nicer it is to use than the more obvious slack competitors

Yeah they had an update to remove the gamer aspect @U08TV6CTC

From their marketing sorry haha

@U82DUDVMH I cant see why discord would have a bad rep tbh. You cant start ur own server then set all the permissions really easily. 🤷

I'm in a few Discords, it's good enough. I don't use it for gaming at all but don't feel like a second-class citizen or anything. Big missing feature is threads though.

I remember when threads were introduced to Slack and thinking "when will people ever use this?" and now it's a staple of my day-to-day

threads are a good way to start an adhoc, opt-in group chat

I'm sure they'll add this functionality eventually 😄

2 things: - lots of people don't like the slack thread ux, so they might be trying to find a better one - some people don't like the effect on conversation flow. Maybe their audience need it less, and the risk to conversation flow is too high.

So i find threads for learning to be useful, But i find threads for conversations between colleagues to be annoying. Threads here is great! I can pop a message and come back to it hours later. Why would i need a thread if i'm asking someone or a team directly about something. Discord chat can be very fast but theirs search history etc, I really like the app haha.

I find it's useful for teams with, let's say, high-touch stakeholders of one sort and another - so specific queries can be sort of quarantined within a thread and not dominate the flow of the public channel

I have to say, I do miss it in discord quite a lot. If you want to reply to something 2 pages up, you basically have to @ whoever wrote it which is a bit rude really. The slack thread inbox is a nice 'soft' notification ...