Wisemonk
Productivity
team chat and discussion bot
SHOW HN2016
106points
47comments
#346of 2,264 in 2016
Top 16%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 3 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea for curbing Slack overuse and making discussions asynchronous.
From 2 comments
Sounds like it's working for you. Why people don't turn notifications off is beyond me though. Still, curating/making asynchronous is the biggest issue with slack so thumbs up.
johanneskanybal on HNWow until about half way through the article I read Discourse as Discord, and it didn't make any sense to me. Now that I understand, this seems like a pretty cool solution. I…
Kratisto on HN
Objections
Bot may break if Slack closes the API.
From 2 comments
Huh, I can only assume slack is going to remove this api very soon after this, nothing makes companies clamp down on openess sooner then syphoning off users.
Illniyar on HNAbsolutely they should. But I don't think a rational self-interested company would continue to allow those APIs to be used in order to facilitate a competitor siphoning off users.
diyorgasms on HN
Slack notifications can be turned off instead of adding a tool.
From 2 comments
Or just turn off notifications on every message? I only get notified on @mentions and I don't feel like I'm oncall.
indspenceable on HNI agree, this seems very much like a culture problem that wants a culture fix, not a technical one.
pavel_lishin on HN
Questions
Whether Discourse will support visualising thread structure.
From 1 comment
Have the Discourse developers ever commented on whether they deliberately didn't support visualization of the thread structure? The software appears to know the thread structure…
schoen on HN
Alternatives named
Basecamp
From 1 comment
Instead of going through contortions trying to break bad Slack habits and worrying about the API getting shut off, maybe it's worth checking out something made for the purpose.…
robbfitzsimmons on HN
Trello comments
From 2 comments
Not too familiar with Discourse, and I'm curious about the difference to trello comments on a card (in this context of taking discussions offline from slack.) Could anyone who…
gingerlime on HNWe at Dgraph use Trello as well. TBH, the commenting on Trello is primitive compared to Discourse. We still comment on Trello when we're talking about specific cards -- but if it…
mrjn on HN