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Some people are not sure about the threading feature in Slack and others find it very useful.
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I thought it had something to do with âthe mental model of notification.â
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Thread Function
- When a thread is started, only the original poster of the post is notified.
- Communicate with a large number of people in a channel without sending notifications to all of them
- Threads that include you will be notified in a proper thread-by-thread format.
- In other words, âstart a threadâ means
- for that particular topic.
- with the same access rights as that channel.
- Without sending out notifications to everyone.
- Ability to create anonymous disposable channels
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Start Threadâ is a very different concept from âReplyâ on a tree board, which is similar in appearance.
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If everyone understands this, it can be beneficially utilized.
- A thread that has not been notified to you can be interpreted as the thread creator deciding that âyou may [you may read it, but you donât have to.
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What happens when someone does not understand
- You donât understand that notifications donât fly and you write in the thread that everyone needs to see it.
- Not being seen causes some problems.
- Other-blame that people didnât see it/self-blame that I didnât see it happens.
- The bad guy is âthe person who used the system without understanding that it is a mechanism to avoid skipping notifications.
- I try to read the threads that havenât been notified to me carefully.
- Itâs a hassle because it takes a lot of effort to read, so the âthread function is not user friendlyâ.
- This tends to happen when the above âpeople who write things in threads that need to be seenâ claim that itâs the fault of those who donât see them, or when those who miss them blame themselves.
- If the thread creator properly understands how it works, heâll take the trouble to read the âinformation the creator thinks he doesnât need to readâ.
- You donât understand that notifications donât fly and you write in the thread that everyone needs to see it.
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The âmental model of notificationsâ issue is that Facebook does not always notify you when you receive a message, and Facebookâs ânews feedâ is âhighlightedâ by default, unlike Twitterâs timeline, so you are not notified of all of your friendsâ activities. This is not always the case.
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In terms of misunderstanding the scope of notification, eve ryone m e nt in kintone is not âeveryone who participates in the groupâ but âeveryone who has the authority to see the statementâ. This is one of the examples.
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