Comment by squigz

8 months ago

What happens in Mattermost if you open up a thread and send a message in it without replying to a message? Does it still show up outside of the thread? I can see how that might be confusing.

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pcthrowaway  8 months ago

If you make the reply in the thread it will go in the thread. Threads in Mattermost are single-tiered (you can't do sub-threads). So they're somewhat limited, and sure, people will occasionally respond to thread conversations out-of-thread. That's a user issue more than anything else. They're not perfect, but they are very useful.

  • boxed  8 months ago

    Hmm, I don't remember it like that. Isn't that exactly how Discord and Slack does it?

    • squigz  8 months ago

      I've never used Mattermost, so I'm only going off my reading of what you said, but the difference is that, if you're not actually in a thread when you reply to a message on Discord, it doesn't get put into that thread, whereas on Mattermost, IIUC, you're saying that you can reply to a message outside of a thread and be able to click into a thread made of all those replies.

      My question (and pcthrowaway's) response is about what happens when you send a message inside a thread without replying to a message. I was wondering if it would be sent into the main channel, with no context, which would be confusing.

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