Slack gets rid of its X integration

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Slack gets rid of its X integration
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Slack gets rid of its X integration::Slack has retired its integration with X (formerly Twitter) because of X’s API changes introduced earlier this year. It’s just one of many useful apps that used Twitter’s data that’s now gone.

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Didn’t even know they had it

Can they add Lemmy-style threaded replies? It’s dumb that thread depth is fixed at 1. We had infinitely threaded replies way back in the BBS days, it isn’t exactly a new feature.

But it’s really hard to add one new database column that’s just a single foreign key. That would take, like, a few minutes of work.

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They only added threading because teams added it. I hated it when it launched. Now I find it kinda useful, but if they were deeply nested things would undoubtedly get lost. Either way I don't think it's a technical limitations so much as it's a product design choice.

I don't know if deeper thread branching is a good idea. I'm already struggling to find Slack comments from people who are in multiple channels and DMs each with various threads off of a main comment

Which BBS systems did you use? The ones I used (which mostly ran Renegade) didn't have branching threads; we'd just quote whichever message we were replying to.

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