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Slack just need to fix threads. The UI right now is crazy if you are in more than one thread, I don’t understand why you have to click “x more replies” to see new messages - I don’t think they fixed this in the new update either. Right now it makes me (and others) avoid threads which clutters up channels for everyone.

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Flowdock did threads really well. It also did crashing several times a day really well too. Today, Twist https://twist.com seems to do everything right.

Everyone has complained for years about this — nothing from the Slack team!

I asked them about this on Twitter, they did have a rationale that "We do want to be careful that folks don't miss threaded replies if they're looking at All Threads and then replies come through and they click into another channel, which is why that exists now."

They did say they were looking to tackle it but this was around a year ago :/

https://twitter.com/tomduncalf/status/1134141543626018816

It mainly frustrates me because I think the rest of Slack is great!

Yet I still constantly miss threaded replies. If I have click "threads" when I have multiple new replies, I often only see the top one, the ones below it are still marked as read if I don't scroll down.

Exactly this :(

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