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A simpler, more organized Slack

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Re: A simpler, more organized Slack

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Post by igetspam »

I'm happy for any improvement to the chaos but I that statement about "fancy" shortcuts doesn't meam they're getting rid of any. Keyboards are the fastest way to navigate a well designed system.

Also I hope this doesn't mean they're forcing that input box on us again. That was a fustercluck.

Re: A simpler, more organized Slack

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Post by Operyl »

fsargent wrote: post #20

When are these features available? It's not listed, and it doesn't seem to be in the current version.

Asked support, rolled out over the "next couple of weeks." Typical fanfare, no way to opt in or out. No way of knowing when it'll all change, or the ability to give a heads up to your company.

Re: A simpler, more organized Slack

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Post by dbg31415 »

Years ago I wrote in and had an exchange with someone at Slack regarding "folders" for channels. I begged for the feature, and included some mock screenshots showing how they could do it. This was before Discord did it.

Anyway I got a tone deaf response, and someone on the Slack team passionately arguing that "folders" were too complicated and that nobody needed them and that 21 characters for the names were enough. I wrote back, and they doubled down on how folders were a bad idea.

The response almost turned me off Slack.

Anyway glad they finally changed their tune. Will really help people with dozens of channels stay organized.

Re: A simpler, more organized Slack

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Post by wool_gather »

mintplant wrote: post #19
noahtallen wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This has a social solution, which is to complain about bots being added to channels that are for human discussions. ;)

It has a fairly successful track record for me.

Re: A simpler, more organized Slack

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Post by ufo »

gabagool wrote: post #17
Hedja wrote: post #5

This 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. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...

Does this feature also work on uBlock Origin for mobile browsers?

Re: A simpler, more organized Slack

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Post by butz »

Hedja wrote: post #5

This article has 50MB of GIFs to download. Be careful if you're metered.

Ouch. When will web developers learn to use HTML5 video? Not only it weighs 10x smaller, but user can actually stop and replay more interesting parts, instead of waiting for another loop. They at least should use loading="lazy" attribute.

Re: A simpler, more organized Slack

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Post by n1c »

city41 wrote: post #15

Slack, _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 wit…

Isn't this what muting channels does?
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