Amazing to see how Slack turned from something everyone raved about to something everyone is sort of annoyed with and critical of. Maybe that isn't that surprising for most products as they age/mature but it seems particularly acute with Slack.
The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
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Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
#12"I apologize for the disruption to your existing workflows. Our aim is to build an editor that works for all Slack users to better format their messages and clearly communicate in channels, regardless of their technical expertise. While we are taking all feedback on board, disabling the new formatting tool isn't an option that we will be offering."
Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
#13Still waiting for an option to disable "drafts" (channels all of a sudden jumping to the top of the channel list)
Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
#14Amazing to see how Slack turned from something everyone raved about to something everyone is sort of annoyed with and critical of. Maybe that isn't that surprising for most products as they age/mature but it seems particularly acute with Slack.
It was better than everything that came before it for it's purpose, so people were happy with the improvement.
But then every time they change something, unless it is just 100% obviously better for everyone, like a speedup, it's gonna annoy some people.
Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
#15Dark mode, better performances, option to disable divisive new features: Slack might be making it harder to focus at work but the product itself improved quite a lot in 2019, kudos to the PMs.
Side comment: I've tried to use Slack's dark mode but had to quit. I was constantly having to download images to be able to read the black-over-transparent background of matplotlib images (that's apparently the default for the axis, markings, legends, etc.) It's not a matter of changing my code, too, because I want to see the images posted by _other_ people
I wonder if you could add a CSS rule to set the background colour of images to white?
Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
#16Thank God. This was the worst thing ever.
Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
#17Still waiting for an option to disable "drafts" (channels all of a sudden jumping to the top of the channel list)
I'd be 100% fine with drafts if it cloned the channel listing instead of moving it.
Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
#18It's pretty incredible to think that for all the billions of dollars around Slack it's still fundamentally the same product with the same value add that it was when it first launched.
Sure, maybe it's faster or more efficient or whatever now, but what it is at heart is the _exact_ same thing it was on Day 1.
Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Side comment: I've tried to use Slack's dark mode but had to quit. I was constantly having to download images to be able to read the black-over-transparent background of matplotlib images (that's apparently the default for the axis, markings, legends, etc.) It's not a matter of changing my code, too, because I want to see the images posted by _other_ people
I wonder if you could add a CSS rule to set the background colour of images to white?
Or use a pseudo element with z-index -1
Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
#20Still waiting for an option to disable "drafts" (channels all of a sudden jumping to the top of the channel list)
I actually like that; it reminds me to cleanup after myself :-)