-There is an active conversation on a group like Soccer, the flow of messages is high.
-Someone starts a topic about Rugby, this message could break the flow of conversation about Soccer.
-To keep the the conversation about Soccer, the message about Rugby is branched on a thread, every response after the first post appears in a separate feed which allows everyone in the thread to discuss a topic in more detail without interrupting the main conversation.
-After a certain period of inactivity like 24 hours the thread is archived, clearing away the clutter for everyone visiting the channel.
The normal flow continues and the messages about Rugby are separated without interrupting the main conversation on the group about Soccer.
This feature will be added soon on Matrix Element app, called Threading.
This could be very useful with this extra feature: when a user sees an interesting thread, hits a button to subscribe to that specific thread (or even an extra feature for the future development which allows user to subscribe not just to that thread, but also similar threads in all public groups and channels!), so even if they can't follow the thread right away, they could later catch the thread within an specific place, like an specific bot chat or something like that, which makes user be able to follow interesting threads whenever they could spend time to read them.
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