Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
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Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
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Re: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
#2Glad I'm not the only one.
I never had a problem with formatting code in slack until this release. And the hotkey (Shit+Cmd+C) doesn't work for me, although that might be my window manager interfering.
Re: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
#3I've given up entirely on the Slack desktop app and use Ripcord exclusively. Much faster, more responsive and easier to use for 99% of my time spent on slack.
Re: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
#4Agreed
Re: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
#5I've given up entirely on the Slack desktop app and use Ripcord exclusively. Much faster, more responsive and easier to use for 99% of my time spent on slack.
Consider my interests piqued. I shall be giving ripcord a go from tomorrow.
Re: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
#6Not exactly the same thing but GChat used to have a mini drawing UI where you could send a quick doodle and it super useful. No one else seems to have picked up on it.
Re: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
#7Just a side note: They never have supported markdown. It just markdown-like or a very limited subset of markdown.
Especially proper list support is missing (ordered and unordered lists), also markdown links.
Re: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
#8It is infuriatingly terrible. A regression. So many times I've had similar woes with the code block and quote block mechanisms too.
Another truly bizarre feature I noted and sent a bug report about was that when adding an image to an "Action" the _minimum_ size requirement is 512px by 512px. For an image that is never rendered larger than 64x64.
Re: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
#9Here is a link for some additional context
https://slack.com/help/articles/202288908-format-your-messag...
And
https://api.slack.com/changelog/2019-09-what-they-see-is-wha...
Re: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
#10Glad I'm not the only one. I never had a problem with formatting code in slack until this release. And the hotkey (Shit+Cmd+C) doesn't work for me, although that might be my window manager interfering.
I guess they reach point where they are trying to improve something that was already good enough.
For me most annoying is that they removed setting that allowed me to configure to have up arrow to repeat the last command (like on IRC) this is very useful if you do ChatOps.