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Twist app - "My Company Tried Slack For Two Years. This Is Why We Quit."

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brotherS:
I just read https://www.fastcompany.com/40433793/my-company-tried-slack-for-two-years-this-is-whywe-quit and wanted to share the article.

Because conversations in Slack happen on a one-way conveyor belt, our team began feeling like they had to stay constantly connected to keep up. This style of communication was especially problematic for a remote-first company like ours. How do you stay in the loop when earlier topics have already been discussed and are buried by the time you even wake up?
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On https://twist.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003654569 they add:

It's not just Slack. Any synchronous, real-time chat app will drain your time—that's the nature of chat.
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I like the thinking behind their https://twistapp.com/ (it's from the Todoist team): to have "calmer, more organized, and more productive communication". I'll try it some day. They have a promo video that shows how it works.

mouser:
That's an interesting post -- thanks for sharing.

I have been very impressed with Slack as a tool for active group discussions, but I can definitely see their points.  And I like the idea of an app for calmer more organized communication/coordination   :up:

wraith808:
On the other hand, I don't see anything new there.  It's just the same kind of app from what I see.  Especially as Slack does have threading, and I like the fact that you can put the thread on the feed, or not, depending on what you want to do, and you can control your notifications on a more granular level, but people just usually don't configure.

Deozaan:
So, it seems to me that Slack is like a modernized IRC and Twist is like modernized email with proper group support (solving the problem of reply-to-all and forwarding, etc.). Interesting.

wraith808:
So, it seems to me that Slack is like a modernized IRC and Twist is like modernized email with proper group support (solving the problem of reply-to-all and forwarding, etc.). Interesting.
-Deozaan (July 14, 2017, 02:48 PM)
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What do you mean by proper group support?  If you've not used it recently, I can show where these features are for comparison.

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