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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

#21

Still 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.

I wonder if there exists a single person happy with the current state of affairs other then the one who designed it

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

#22
In case anyone's interested, here's the Chromium bug(s) that's one of the main reasons the WYSIWYG editor has such issues in Chrome(/Electron):

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102937...

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608393

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608162

The gist of it is that they "canonicalize" the DOM selection when you have two adjacent inline elements, so that it can only ever be at the ending edge of the first inline element. Which makes certain selection states impossible. And on top of that, they don't draw the cursor in the right spot when doing the canonicalization. So for instance, it might look like your cursor is here:

    one|two
But it's actually here:

    one|two
Drawn in the wrong place. And impossible to put it at the beginning of "two" at all! It's crazy!

I don't know how much the take "starring" into account, but it can't hurt to star them in the hopes they're fixed sooner.

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Edit: If you want to see the craziness in action, check out this sandbox:

https://codesandbox.io/s/amazing-breeze-6elsy

1. Try to put your cursor at the end of the word "one"

2. Try to type a character at the start of the word "two"

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

#26
post #5

The ability to format markup with keyboard shortcuts seems to be gone now. Previously you could select some text, type ctrl-i, and it would add the necessary markup to make the selected text italic. Same for bold text etc. Still, I'll take it over the WYSIWYG editor which was a nightmare for code snippets.

You're right, after disabling WYSIWYG editor keyboard shortcuts don't work. That means I'm staying with extension for Firefox...

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

#27

It'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.

Does it need to change?

I don't want Slack to be a different or more comprehensive tool.

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

#28

It'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.

Does it need to change? I don't want Slack to be a different or more comprehensive tool.

I agree! That's why I think it's so interesting.

Aside from bugfixes, I'm sure they could have done absolutely nothing since launching and be profitable and useful.

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

#29
post #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."

Source?

Re: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

#30
post #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."

Source?

Sounds very similar to the infuriating twitter replies when this feature came out.
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