A simpler, more organized Slack

By “simpler” I’m sure they mean “lower memory footprint” and “more stable” - right?

I would really just be happy if they made the video calls work more reliably. It’s really important now that my whole team is working from home. It’s a common occurrence that video calls fail to connect and everyone going into a call has to restart their client.

Over the years Slack has become more and more bloated. I think the scope has increased beyond where it’s possible to have a stable Electron app. It’s a shame because the core functionality they offer seems like it should be pretty simple to get right.

A few of the UI changes - top search bar, activity and files tabs, compose button - first appeared in MS Teams some time back.

I wonder how much the competition forced Slack to think more about the UI/UX of it's product.

Anyone know how to enable this new UI?

If you read beyond two words from the title, you'll see the full title is "Introducing a simpler, more organized Slack" which includes "organized", so probably not related to performance or stability in any way.

Subtitle is "We’re releasing a series of improvements that make working in Slack easier for everyone" which also implies this is all UX work.

Your whole comment feels off-topic in regards to this, and could have been made to any Slack submission to HN. Maybe there should be a different channel for general complaints?

> The rollout starts today and will continue over the next several weeks