[PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:09 PM Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
<mandarvaze at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Slack and others don't lend themselves well to highly threaded or, long form conversations.
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> Has anyone used twist ? https://twist.com/tour (I have not)
> One of the feature they keep talking about is threaded conversations.

Slack, Flock and a host of others lend themselves to threading (which,
by the way, isn't very "new", Google Wave had thread
<https://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/>)

The trouble with threading is when it becomes too deeply nested.
Visual selection and curation of items and topics become difficult.