In practice, what happens when a discussion spans multiple topics?
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:43 AM Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@hibernate.org> wrote: > On Fri 18-07-27 14:38, Guillaume Smet wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:31 PM Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@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 > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
