Interesting, that's actually one of my biggest complaints in Slack. If a discussion should be public, it should be visible. Threads in Slack are a pain to pay attention to because they're "hidden" from view in the main channel. I appreciate how MM keeps threaded messages in the channel.

This is the biggest thing blocking us from moving from Slack to MM. With Slack you have the option of replying to a message in the channel and keeping it fully visible, just by replying in the main chat, so why don't you just do that and not use threads?

> so why don't you just do that and not use threads?

Sometimes multiple topics are being discussed at the same time in the same channel, threads are helpful here.

Slack only recently got threads at all -- I realize it's easy to get used to them but maybe reconsider whether it's really become a show stopper. You probably would have used Slack before they implemented threads, after all...

We've switched to on-premises MM from HipChat at the beginning of the year.

I miss the video conf functionality of HipChat, but other than that I think MM was the right decision for us. Everyone on the team seems to be happy with it.

Rocket.Chat has the same issues. Why do they think this is a good idea to put the thread comments in the main room. It's an absolute mess.

> We recently switched from Slack to Mattermost and love it.

> ...makes catching up on posts almost impossible.

Seems odd those 2 statements are in the same comment. How can you love a product that has such a big flaw in the basic workflow? For the record, I've never even heard of Mattermost until today, but just thought that was strange to read your comment.

I don’t think it’s strange to “love” something just because you can point out its flaws. It’s not like the alternative is perfect, and depending on your point of view, it might have flaws that are more fundamental or hard to fix.

That's fair. I don't know, I guess it just read funny to me at first, but you're right.

I was going to post the same message as the parent poster Let try it with an couple of other examples

I love the ford abc but the steering feedback makes it impossible to steer

I love the new Panasonic tv, but the way it shows black makes it impossible to watch movies