Jun 20, 2024
Starting discussions in Plain, and AI-generated titles for threads
This week we’ve improved our discussions feature – allowing you to start new discussions directly in Plain. Move faster with your team by creating discussions directly in your Plain threads.
We’ve also shipped AI-generated titles for threads. Immediately see at a glance what a thread is about, and move through your queue even faster.
Starting discussions in Plain
A few weeks ago with the introduction of discussions, we made it easier for you to collaborate on Plain threads with your team. Today, we’re building on those foundations – allowing you to start those discussions directly in Plain threads.
To start discussions directly in Plain, you’ll need to first add Plain to the channels you want to use for discussions. Don’t worry, we’ll separate those from the channels that are dedicated to handling customer requests. Check out our docs for detailed instructions.
AI-generated titles for threads
With this new release, if you’ve enabled thread titles (settings → workflow), we’ll automatically generate titles for threads created without a title through our API or via Slack.
This is particularly useful for threads that originate in Slack. Slack threads will no longer show under unactionable titles like “Slack message in #channel-name”. –Instead, they’ll be automatically generated for you based on the content of the thread.
Save time and make your support queue easier to review – regardless of where your threads originate from.
What's new
Easily migrate from Freshdesk thanks to our new Freshdesk importer, which will allow you to import all tickets, customers and labels into Plain
We’ve added two new webhooks for sent and received Slack messages
Added SLA compliance for first response time and next response time, as well as breached thread lists
New “all time customers helped” counter now available in your Insights tab at the bottom, because the 90s internet was awesome
Improvements
Fixed a bug which caused tenants to overflow in the sidebar if you had too many
When you pick a project upon creating a Linear issue, that is now “sticky” and will preserve it’s value for the next Linear issue you create
Introduced new time periods for reporting – you can now look back 30, 60, and 120 days
Designed, built and written by
Preslav Mihaylov
Engineering
Matt Vagni
Co-founder & CTO
Kate Donnellan
Marketing
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