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date: "2026-04-22T00:09:21.000Z"
title: "2026-04-21"
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I've been working on a chat app recently for collaboration with people and agents.
I was heavily relying on "channels" for specific projects.
However, a pattern that was emerging often was more exploratory, unstructured conversations, and often several of these at once.
I was starting to juggle these between channels named for projects just because they had to go somewhere.
Multiple "in progress" messages in a channel was too confusing.
So I landed on "ephemeral" channels which are one-off disposable conversations.
It feels like a reasonable compromise for my use case.