Has anyone here played around with Twist?

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A discussion about Twist, a platform that aims to balance the features of Slack and Discourse. mcwumbly introduced Twist, highlighting its unique features, such as threads as first-class citizens and no presence indicator, like Discourse. However, it also has Slack-like channels that persistently appear on the left. BKerr mentioned that the price-per-user is a significant barrier for their needs. mcwumbly acknowledges pricing concerns but invites others to share their experiences and identify good ideas that could be incorporated into Discourse.

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I just discovered twist. 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 is a good introduction, as well as their comparison pages for Slack and Email.

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 and here).

I’m also curious to hear other first hand impressions if anyone else here has played around with it.

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Functionality aside, right from the start the price-per-user (even discounted) would be an insurmountable barrier for my needs.

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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.

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