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I've been dissatisfied with Slack for a long while, and feel something more like a threaded forum that supports but does not require synchronous communication would fit my mindset better.

I've been curious about Zulip (https://zulipchat.com/) for a while, but have yet to use it for anything.

The fact that Braid explicitly calls itself an "email/mailing-list/web-forum/chatroom hybrid" sounds promising to me. That's roughly what I'm wishing for, and is how I've described what I want before.

Does anyone here have hands-on experience with Braid?

More generally, are there other tools you've used or heard of that might fall into that category?

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Zulip is still the best solution to the problem that I have encountered. I used it for my startup for a year or so. Not currently using it unfortunately.

I have heard some people have difficulty getting people to use topics properly (i.e. not putting everything in one topic), although we didn't have that problem. Possibly its an uncanny valley issue - it's too close to Slack/WhatsApp and so people just slip into that habit. I could see that something like Braid which feels very different could force new behaviours to be created.

Zulip is way better than slack/gitter/etc. Plus it's open source.

getaether.net/pro

The founder is pretty present here on HN and I suspect he'll join this thread shortly. Aether is unreal at removing Slack distractions and chaos and bringing focus to messages that are important.

The two biggest challenges I have with Slack are battle between checking every notification (annoying) and ignoring notifications and ending up missing something important (also annoying). Aether solves that quite well in addition to other issues.

we're working on what you're describing with pingpong (https://usepingpong.com). all conversations are threaded, mostly geared for async but can be synchronous if desired. would love to get your feedback on it.

That looks very nice, but you probably should include a video of some sorts to get a feel of what it looks like !

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