[hibernate-dev] Stride

[Steve Ebersole]

In practice, what happens when a discussion spans multiple topics?


On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:43 AM Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> On Fri 18-07-27 14:38, Guillaume Smet wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:31 PM Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I like Zulip a lot. I've been using it extensively and the notion of
> >> topic (like a email subjet) is a big +1 for me and for any more casual
> >> lurker. Also it reduces the proliferation of one off/single subject
> >> channel that a lurker always miss in tools like Slack.
> >>
> >> Granted Zulip topics are a bit offsetting for the first 5 posts. And yes
> >> their mobile client is really bad. But the desktop client is really
> >> nice.
> >>
> >
> >I'm not really excited about topics. We might need a topic once a month,
> >maybe less, when we start a big discussion on a subject (and even so,
> >there's usually only one discussion in parallel).
>
> If you want to accept the Hibernate community in this and it catches up,
> then you will have parallel discussions. Join the Infinispan one for an
> example.
>
> Also even if one conversation happens at a given time, it is a very good
> organiser for someone that is catching up on subject after the actual
> conversation happened.
>
> >
> >The rest of the time, we just share in the channel.
> >
> >If they were optional, that would do but they are not and you always need
> 2
> >clicks to share (e.g. go to the right stream, then either choose a topic
> or
> >create new topic), whereas you're at most one click away on HipChat. For
> >our usage I find it a bit suboptimal.
> >
> >I use the HipChat mobile client from time to time, not sure how bad
> Zulip's
> >is. Can you at least follow the streams and post messages?
> >
> >Anyway, it's more a -0 than a -1 for Zulip.
> >
> >Never used Slack.
> >
> >--
> >Guillaume
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