[hibernate-dev] Stride

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Same as in an email thread, you change the topic for a subpart of your
conversation. You can opt to fork the topic name at a
given point in time retroactively (which you don't get for emails).

On Mon 18-07-30  9:10, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>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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