I've been a user on the site for a few months now. There's a lot you can imagine would be difficult with threaded chat, but in practice it works pretty well, to the point that I generally miss having the ability to reply to a specific message on other chat platforms.
This is like IRC and FB posts fused together. I love it. In traditional IRC you have many topics intertwined - very distracting / waste of time if you only care about a single topic and don't have time to sift through everything typed. Slack very much suffers from that same problem - you care about something important - and there's all that noise.<p>With the introduction of threaded conversations you could collapse and ignore threads you don't care about and drill into the details of the things you want/need.<p>Love it! Congrats Max and team!
I like that you can host it yourself. I'ld like to guide my company away from email+phone but it is a long way to go. And in Europe there are still a lot of concerns if you can't host something in your own environment.<p>I don't see any FOSS / paid modern solutions similar to slack, flowdock, scrollback, .. ready to be hosted in your environment. HipChat seems to be the only solution with a standalone server available. There are some open source competitors but they are far from production-ready. Am I missing something?