# Has anyone here played around with Twist?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-here-played-around-with-twist/67019
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [28 juli 2017 om 14:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-here-played-around-with-twist/67019 "2017-07-28T14:08:21Z")
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [28 juli 2017 om 14:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-here-played-around-with-twist/67019/1 "2017-07-28T14:08:21Z")
I just discovered [twist](https://twistapp.com/). Looks like something worth keeping an eye on!
On the surface, it looks like they are aiming to hit a sweet spot between Slack and Discourse. [This blog post](https://blog.doist.com/why-were-betting-against-real-time-team-messaging-521804a3da09) is a good introduction, as well as their comparison pages for [Slack](https://twist.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003654569) and [Email](https://twist.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003654589).
Like Discourse, threads (e.g. topics) are first class citizens and they have decided _against_ a presence indicator.
But like Slack, they have the channels you have chosen to join shown persistently on the left, rather than only having _all_ categories under a dropdown or on a separate page (related topics [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-star-or-favorite-categories-then-list-them-at-the-top/38643) and [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-tabs-for-user-customizeable-saved-filters/40953)).
I’m also curious to hear other first hand impressions if anyone else here has played around with it.
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### Author:  [@BKerr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BKerr)
#### Post date: [28 juli 2017 om 14:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-here-played-around-with-twist/67019/2 "2017-07-28T14:58:55Z")
Functionality aside, right from the start the price-per-user (even discounted) would be an insurmountable barrier for my needs.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [28 juli 2017 om 16:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-here-played-around-with-twist/67019/3 "2017-07-28T16:44:07Z")
Yeah, pricing and viability aside, I’m still interested to hear what kinds of things people do and don’t like about it, and whether there are good ideas that people think could work well within Discourse that may be worth borrowing.