Slack Chat – Does It Have Threaded Chat or Respond to X Functionality?

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We just started experimenting with Slack on my team. It's an awesome product, packed with third-party integrations and user-friendly features. But one that it doesn't have:

threaded comments.

I'm not sure that I'm looking precisely for indented responses. Maybe there's another UI effect that can indicate a message is in response to a previous one ie. highlighting the previous message on hover.

Is there any way to activate this feature? Is the team working on it, and if so, is there any way to know how high of a priority it is? (I really like Spotify's use of the Lithium engine to track feature request momentum and provide feedback to the community. Does Slack have a similar community space?)

Is there a Slack integration that works for this purpose? Or how about a user script?

Best Answer

Just announced!

Threaded messaging comes to Slack

... Say someone posts a message in Slack that you want to follow up on, but the deeper conversation doesn’t apply to everyone. Now, you can kick off a detailed discussion on that particular topic by hovering over the message and clicking Start a thread. The right sidebar in Slack will open, and you can add your reply.

"Threads" are rolling out "in the next few days". More details at SlackHQ.

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