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I know it’s bike-shedding at this point but I really dislike slacks threads.

I would highly recommend looking at Zulip and telling me what you think. a good example of Zulip in action is the Rust communities Zulip instance.

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I much prefer Zulip's thread model to Slack's (it it bolt-on and poorly done: threads have no titles, they get lost in history as there is no way to list threads, and they are optional so people only use them some times), but I prefer Slack's UI to Zulip: in Zulip everything feels a bit 'tight' and too close together. Also the big outline box for keyboard navigation is distracting to me.

Seems like an interesting study in developer-driven design: in Zulip the mental model is much better, but the appearance of the UI isn't as nice.

Zulip cannot be read without signing up. That's very annoying.

It is a feature that's currently being worked on actively. You can follow the work here: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/16131

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