Wee-slack: New threads feature in slack

[BlitzKraft]

Are there any plans to implement the threads feature? Any ideas/thoughts on it?

[tfheen]

We need to handle it in some form or fashion, at least. Details to be determined.

[keith]

Old versions of the Slack desktop app just show the responses like normal messages. I assume that part is at least working now?

[trygveaa]

The thread messages show up as normal now, except that they get a blank line beneath them, like this: http://s.whoop.wtf/ymw9r.png

One way to handle thread messages would be to prefix them with some text indicating which message they are in, e.g. like this:

[20:30:10 trygveaa] test

Which would be a message containing "test" in a thread on a message from me at 20:30:10.

[cmhamill]

I'm a random user of this software, and just wanted to suggest a possible interface for this, along the lines of what @trygveaa said. Prefix messages as he suggested, but with a short, unique identifier:

[aghyp] test

Or perhaps thread-<n> test, if that's easier to implement. I'm not sure what the difficulty is of doing the next part in WeeChat's plugin API, but if you could register the short identifier in the auto-completion, and take messages of the form aghyp: foo and @aghyp: foo to be replies to that thread, it would make Slack threads work the way ad-hoc conversations already work in IRC.

Assuming the WeeChat API can be made to do this, the hardest part, I think, would be making the identifier unique across other thread identifiers and all usernames in the Slack organization. If that's too much of a mess, then another option is to take replies of the form /reply adhyp foo, perhaps as an alias for /slack reply ahyp foo.

Just my two cents. Thanks for the amazing work on this project already!

[BlitzKraft]

@cmhamill : I think that's a great idea. I use weetweet for twitter on weechat. It generates a sequential identifier for the tweets to be addressed for retweeting/adding favorites.

Example, a to favorite a tweet, the command is :fav e9 where e9 is the identifier. I guess something like that would be possible.

[rawdigits]

@cmhamill I brought up a similar idea in the #wee-slack irc channel a few days ago. Replies would be much like you say, but to expand it, I was going to allow you to open a 'channel' with the unique ID as well. This would let you keep a thread open for ongoing discussion.

[cro]

Now that would be slick.

[Wolf480pl]

Apparently it's been already implemented in wee-slack/wee-ng

[rawdigits]

Wee-ng has been merged to master, so threads support is now in mainline. 🎉