On 17 mai 17:52, David Wei wrote: > On 2024-05-17 15:24, Mathieu Masson wrote: > [...] > > Not to start any form of chat platform war, but the rust-for-linux community has > > been using Zulip for a while now. At some point they made the full message > > history live accessible without an account : > > > > https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/ > > This looks and feels more like a chat/forum hybrid with discussion > threads etc. I strictly prefer chat's lower friction but understand that > it makes it difficult to archive vs threads. > > How are the threads created? Is it done at the start by the author? Or > can someone just type and start a convo in a generic stream e.g. > Filesystems, then an admin later groups the discussion? > Yes that is exactly like that. It's a forum hybrid, akin to what Teams is nowadays, all conversation are tied under a topic. It's at the start of a conversation that an author starts a thread yeah, by choosing a title for it and the stream in which it'll take place. This seems to be the trend among chat platforms nowadays, to have everything under threads. Not that I particulary like it but it has its advantages. If you want a more broader view, you can combine streams, and there is even a "recent conversation" view that combines unseen conversations from all streams. I guess discord originating more in the gaming world kept the pure chat approach. If we want something more lower friction discord is the way to go. (I'd say IRC but I see in another message Jens said it's a no go).
