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The New Flowdock: a Mac App, New Design, Chat + Threading, Emoji…

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37 pointsjorde12 comments

I wish there were more screenshots of the App. I know you are pushing people to get started on the free trial and to actually experience the app but I really like to browse through all the various screens before diving in.

Looks like something I would consider dumping campfire for (campfire has never made me happy).

+1 for full-res screenshots. I like to see what I'm getting before having to create an account and download an app.

Here's a better full-size screenshot: https://d2cxspbh1aoie1.cloudfront.net/assets/press/flowdock-...

Thanks for the feedback, we'll be adding more of them, and blogging about individual features.

We actually have a Campfire importer in case you want to retain your chat history.

Thanks for reading the feedback :) Love that there is a campfire importer that we can import our chat history with!

We're giving this a demo in the office today. Really loving the ease of integrating things like Jira / Github.

For someone who's not familiar with the app, I have to do a lot of decoding of your home page to figure out what exactly the product is and why I should be interested.

Your /tour "Features" page explains it much better:

"TEAM INBOX & CHAT Replace IRC, IM or Skype chat with Flowdock."

That's something I can quickly parse and immediately understand.

I also echo the sentiment that more screenshots (hopefully with call-outs/highlights) would probably help out.

Agreed, I went to click on the image of the chatroom on the homepage thinking it would zoom in on it, and instead I'm taken to a page with even fewer images.

This is a welcome change.

The previous design looked a bit rushed and the icons looked straight out of the 90s.

Great job with the new design and especially the support for 1-to-1 messages!

Thanks for the post! We've been working on this new release for a while, hoping to get lots of feedback from HN.

You should be able to put flows into categories and make subflows.

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