Threadcord

Inspiration

Is Discord suitable for Businesses?

Discord doesn't offer threads, and that's going to be a dealbreaker for large organizations. Zapier, for example, runs pretty much entirely in Slack. Threads are how we make it work.

Let me back up. In Slack, users can start a thread for any comment. This is a great way to organize channels by conversation, preventing a channel from being a mess of unrelated conversations.

Only users who comment in a thread are notified of new messages, which helps cut down on information overload. This is probably why Google Meet and Microsoft Teams both force users to speak in threads—it tames the clutter.

Discord doesn't support threads at all. You can kind of work around this by quoting people, but it's not the same.

This kind of disorganized, free-flowing conversation is fine in an informal context. It's not great for getting actual work done—at least, not on a large team. It usually ends up with groups of people trying to have unrelated conversations.

What it does

Threadly is a Discord bot which aims to solve the issue of message threads by creating a seperate channel for every conversation thread.

How I built it

This project was built with Python and the Discord.py framework.

Challenges I ran into

Navigating through the Discord.py documentation.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I was able to somewhat

What I learned

I got more experience in Discord's python framework as well as more experience in reading python documentation.

What's next for Threadcord

As Discord's platform starts to introduce more features, threadly will capitalize on them and aim to improve itself.

Built With

• discord
• discord.py
• python