> Organize channels, messages and apps into custom, collapsible sections (you know, like folders)
Looking at my three-screens-long list of channels, this is a welcome change.
A simpler, more organized Slack
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#12Anyone know how to enable this new UI?
Looking at their release logs it seems that the new UI is still not released but will be released during march
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#13Anyone know how to enable this new UI?
You have to be a paid user, and they're rolling it out automatically over the course of a few weeks.
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#14Must be for their app only, the web version is still the same
Isn’t the app an electron app? I imagine they try to share UI. Not sure about that though, it’d be interesting to learn more.
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#15Slack, _please_ add the ability to not be notified about general messages on Linux. I want to only have the app icon change to red if I get a private message or @'d. The blue dot is distracting noise. I edit the app's source code to remove the blue dot, but have to continually do it every time Slack updates.
Fitting into these new features, it'd be great if for each channel folder I could pick how I want activity within them to notify me.
EDIT: it's possible this is only a Linux (or at least, non-Mac) problem. It seems Mac users do have the ability to do this.
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#16> Organize channels, messages and apps into custom, collapsible sections (you know, like folders) Looking at my three-screens-long list of channels, this is a welcome change.
An incredible improvement. I really hope they improve notifications at some point. In some channels, I don’t even want the bold font indicating unread messages.
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#17This article has 50MB of GIFs to download. Be careful if you're metered.
Tip for desktop users: uBlock Origin (amongst others) lets you block media elements larger than n KB. You can then choose to selectively load in specific blocked media elements.
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#18By “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…
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 h…
I should have rephrased. I believe Slack's UX team is looking for solutions to problems nobody actually cares about. Meanwhile the tempo of so-called improvements that end up being harmful to the product seems to have made the entire app unstable. The fact that they have to publicly back away from new features after customers revolt, like their ill-fated rich text editor, seems to confirm that nobody wants this stuff.
In my opinion I think Slack's time would be better spent collecting money and maybe building native clients for various operating systems. It was fine in 2017. I wish their UX team would just stop.
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#19> Organize channels, messages and apps into custom, collapsible sections (you know, like folders) Looking at my three-screens-long list of channels, this is a welcome change.
An incredible improvement. I really hope they improve notifications at some point. In some channels, I don’t even want the bold font indicating unread messages.
I'm still waiting for the ability to be notified for all non-bot messages in a channel, which they told me they were working on, uh, 7 years ago.
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#20When are these features available? It's not listed, and it doesn't seem to be in the current version.