Thread Messaging on Slack - Keep conversations organized and easy to follow with Threads

This might be the most anticipated update for Slack. It's probably the most requested feature: threaded comments. Looks nice!

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Implementation looks really slick. Seems to get the job done without being over complicated. Wouldn't expect anything less from @stewart and the Slack team 👏🏾

Very excited for this. Extremely hard to both build something robust/useful while not complicating the product.

So what happens when you get into threadception?

Slack just became email.

I am THRILLED to see that Slack has finally come to their senses and integrated threaded conversations. This is a massive improvement of the user experience. I belong to many Slack groups and I really, really struggle to actually return to the groups. My primary frustration has been that if I go to a group with say more than 5 people, it feels like a giant old Skype conversation between people. And because of the lack of threaded conversations, I was forced to scroll all the way back to the top and then piece together the actual conversations. Talk about a frustrating user experience. I will say that I love using Slack one on one -- I use it with my virtual assistant and it works beautifully. But for multiple people, I just could not deal with it. I NEEDED the context that comes from threaded conversations. This is why I've been spending more time with Facebook groups. Love it or hate it, Facebook has nailed the UX of their group discussions. I am truly able to follow conversations and the UX of both consuming of those conversations and contributing to those conversations is simple and seamless. I am launching an online UX course soon (www.sarahdoody.com/uxresearch) and one component will be an online community. I was truly torn between using Facebook or Slack. I wanted the UX of Facebook's threaded conversations. But, I know that my audience would prefer to use Slack because they're already using it at work. So, looks like I'll end up going with Slack!! I am SO happy for this feature. Thanks for listening to your users :)

This looks great, nice work Slack! Any Chatlio customers out there, we are interested in your thoughts on any potential uses for this in Chatlio. Again, nice job thinking through the UX Slack.

This is awesome! Great work to everyone involved.

It's amazing to me how something so simple that has been available for ages with other messaging type apps can be so anticipated and appreciated (including myself). I'm curious what @stewart take on this is. Why did it take so long. Was it a cultural thing? Was it too close to FB comments for comfort?