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 <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
