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jkeuhlen

Can you send messages without a topic too?

Jack Henahan

No topic is itself a topic. Very philosophical

Gabriel Lebec

Ceci n'est pas un sujet?

Pavan Rikhi

The treachery of streams

John Whiles

Does replying so a specific message in a topic change anything?

TheMatten

@John Whiles It makes message part of that specific topic
Topics are something like categorization of specific discussions in stream (channel in Slack) - you can mute those you're not interested in

TheMatten

And those you're subscribed to show up with messages interleaved in chronological order

TheMatten

At the end, if you want to respond to some message, just click on it and press Enter/r or reply button in the bottom right corner

John Whiles

got it - so there's no internal threading to topics - like you might reply to one specific message in a slack channel?

TheMatten

Yeah - if you feel like you want to talk about something separately, you just create new topic with some name

TheMatten

There's shortcut c for that

TheMatten

It's... different - you just need to get used to different style of UX
What's better about it is that "threads" here have names and can be long term as far as interface is concerned

Jack Henahan

And further that the topics can be renamed (and even split and merged) without losing any of that history