These content streams have been around since the first web forum. Threads appear in chat rooms, emails, and even the comment section of blogs. They appear within a group, private message, or channel. A thread is a running commentary of all the messages sent in your chat app. Message threads are a part of the new real-time conversational experience. This approach is good for your mental health, but since your team messaging is a structureless firehose, prepare to come back to a cannon blast of jumbled unread messages to the face. Go have a nice meal, enjoy the sunshine, spend time with a relative or friend. Step away from your computer for a few hours. Because if you don’t, you know that critical message will get lost in the flood and scroll up into the abyss beyond your computer screen’s horizon. Monitor that endless flow of conversation.
That’s why I invited Daniel Velton, Co-Founder of Leverice, onto Dispatch. This happens because we often revert back to our old email habits. It’s much easier than tracking emails – at least in theory.Įveryone loves the agility of team messaging tools…until they lose their agility. With tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack, we can talk to anyone in real-time (or asynchronously).
Message threads are a cure to the cluttered instant messaging landscape. Instant messaging is a cure to the cluttered inbox.