Suggestions for Fibery Chat

Ideas & Features
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This post is to share thoughts on the future plans for Fibery Chat, as read in the last #34 June 2021 blog post:

We may do even better here, improve connections and information mixing, and transform Fibery into a second brain for teams . Feature-wise it will lead to Entity View / Documents re-design with Blocks, new navigation patterns to explore connections quickly, and new collaboration patterns, like Chat in Fibery.

I really hope we can keep the option to continue chatting in Slack and get the same features that we’re going to get in Fibery Chat. Slack does so many things right that it seems difficult to build now a better chat platform in this current (early) phase of Fibery.

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Is this function in a roadmap? Personally, for me it is no.1 thing and having chat+channels even without calling, screensharing and other fancy stuff would be so amazing.

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The closest we have is ‘threads’ but there are currently no plans for active development in this direction, I’m afraid

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Funny I was just going to come back in here and provide a vote to try to see if I could find out what are the latest intentions here - sorry to see your response @Chr1sG but thanks for weighing in and keeping us in the loop. I have to say threads I think are one of the most innovative things you guys have ever done and could go very far as a way for Fibery to solve one of the biggest problems in team collaboration - how to keep context organized…The way you’ve set it up right now, I have been able to basically emulate a Slack channel set up, with the huge benefit of all my work being able to be both easily tagged via # command, the ability to create new work inline the same way, and also keep a record of all mentions and updates through references to the thread. This is flat out unmatched anywhere - Notion is making a big push trying to sync up with Slack but I’ve tried to configure and it’s just not the same - Tana, etc the various other “networked thought” derivative approaches way too hard to master and leave out fundamentals like ease of commenting or assignments. This is also a great way to aid AI because you will have an even more defined set of content ready-made to point to AI, vs the other approach of trying to keep up team chat in Slack, then simultaneously duplicate that in a work management tool like Fibery.

I think all I’d need to actually ditch Slack would be for the mobile versions of the app, and the desktop app, to effectively send a notification when there is activity so I could respond like in Slack, or essentially text which Slack is replacing for a lot of teams.

Hope this is helpful and inspiring and really hoping to see this on the roadmap - not to be a party pooper but this is something I much more desperately need than the UI stuff we are discussing over here.

And sorry not trying to beat this to death but comments like these that I feel like is buried in a thread with no votes I think are showing the need out there, very simply explained my same need: