Tim Abbott

@YJDave can you rebase?

Can you explain to me why the modified logic is correct? I find the flow hard to read here, which is why this has been stuck for a while.

@YJDave did we merge this already?

@rishig what are your thoughts on this?

I disagree; I think that trying to pidgeonhole Slack's threading into Zulip will mostly just confuse new users as to how Zulip topics work (by providing a bunch of examples...

This seems sufficiently fragile that we should add tests for it. I'm also thinking that we might want to do something that feels less like a hack just for Slack;...

I merged the first commit, thanks @punchagan! Posting a next batch of comments shortly.

@brockwhittaker can you review this?

I took a look at this, and I think it's an improvement, but I'm not sure it's precisely the right logic. I can imagine this causing problems with other text...

@dgarvit can you start a thread on #design about this question? I think we probably want this in the 3 search UIs on the main page, but I'd like some...