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We're using Google Chat again. Feels ancient. https://chat.google.com/

If you're using gsuite already, it's a usable failover. I send all my alert notifications there, as a fallback already. Dragging people in was trivial. It's better than the group SMS that one person tried to use.

Same - and it's just... weird. The "everything must be in a thread" model feels really clunky.

That's a good point, however threads do tend to help with keeping things organized when in a channel.

It actually might be a good thing that everyone doesn't feel the need to look at slack every X minutes.

Subjective... I've found Slack and co's interspersed conversations far too chaotic, and temporal; threading is a great way of organising many different concurrent topics.

And to be clear I don't mean Slack's implementation of threads which is hiding it away in a separate panel and which doesn't get used by everyone either.

I find Zulip to be a nice balance. Threads are much more prominent than they are in Slack, but aren't clunky.

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