The New Flowdock: a Mac App, New Design, Chat + Threading, Emoji…

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by jorde • 14 years ago

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mutru3• 14 years ago

Thanks for the post! We've been working on this new release for a while, hoping to get lots of feedback from HN.

dmix• 14 years ago

This is a welcome change.

The previous design looked a bit rushed and the icons looked straight out of the 90s.

zdgman3• 14 years ago

I wish there were more screenshots of the App. I know you are pushing people to get started on the free trial and to actually experience the app but I really like to browse through all the various screens before diving in.

Looks like something I would consider dumping campfire for (campfire has never made me happy).

mutru3• 14 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, we'll be adding more of them, and blogging about individual features.

We actually have a Campfire importer in case you want to retain your chat history.

zdgman3• 14 years ago

Thanks for reading the feedback :) Love that there is a campfire importer that we can import our chat history with!

zdgman3• 14 years ago

We're giving this a demo in the office today. Really loving the ease of integrating things like Jira / Github.

netfire• 14 years ago

+1 for full-res screenshots. I like to see what I'm getting before having to create an account and download an app.

mutru3• 14 years ago

Here's a better full-size screenshot: https://d2cxspbh1aoie1.cloudfront.net/assets/press/flowdock-...

juso• 14 years ago

Great job with the new design and especially the support for 1-to-1 messages!

twodayslate• 14 years ago

You should be able to put flows into categories and make subflows.

tripngroove• 14 years ago

For someone who's not familiar with the app, I have to do a lot of decoding of your home page to figure out what exactly the product is and why I should be interested.

Your /tour "Features" page explains it much better:

"TEAM INBOX & CHAT Replace IRC, IM or Skype chat with Flowdock."

That's something I can quickly parse and immediately understand.

I also echo the sentiment that more screenshots (hopefully with call-outs/highlights) would probably help out.

mnicole• 14 years ago

Agreed, I went to click on the image of the chatroom on the homepage thinking it would zoom in on it, and instead I'm taken to a page with even fewer images.

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