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I think threaded conversations become more important as an organisation's channels become increasingly noisy. Threaded conversations can partly alleviate that.

They probably want to prevent organisations from disabling a feature that may assist with their scaling on slack.

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The problem is that threads lead to missed messages. That’s a bigger problem than potential of noise. At least allow a user to decide if they want to see messages in threads or not.

Threaded messages arguably allow for less fragmentation into other channels / DMs, and they have the checkbox for a particularly important message to be sent to both the thread and main convo.

I'm a thread fan from the start, and I've observed many who were initially skeptical start using them heavily

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