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Is the the redesign my wife's been reminding me she hates every day? I'm on Teams these days (bleh) so I haven't seen it. Also, so I can answer the question she keeps asking: did they in fact get rid of Huddles? If they didn't, she can't find them anymore.
Slack went downhill when they changed their logo from the hashtag to the most generic random logo they could find. I miss the days when companies would spend money and effort into good logos.
I'm sure there's a substantial population that this redesign was successful for, but it's nobody I've talked to. I can no longer tell which of my slacks has pending messages at a glance, and my actually important channels' notifications are hidden in a sea of irrelevant ones when they used to be the only attention-attractors on the interface. I gather that you think the list of people and channels is just one aspect…
Hold up there, I can't drink that fast.
Is the the redesign my wife's been reminding me she hates every day? I'm on Teams these days (bleh) so I haven't seen it. Also, so I can answer the question she keeps asking: did they in fact get rid of Huddles? If they didn't, she can't find them anymore.
Seems like they moved them to a small headphone icon button in the top right corner of the window for the channel/DM you're in.
But now it's pretty atrocious. The Activity tab is uselessly cluttered. If someone is trying to get my attention in a thread and it's not a DM, I rarely ever see or notice it.
A redesign that is universally hated in my organization. Every standup has someone complaining about it.
The redesign is OK. Annoying how some things moved, still not enough emphasis on channels that have unread messages (light text vs. normal for “bold” to call attention), and still no way to mute all but direct @ messages… so you can’t ever mute @channel or @here without muting the channel. The way Slack handles and automatically closes direct messages and private chats is annoying and I want to be able to turn that o…
Either way, it all sucks, and I totally sympathize. :(
But by looking at those whiteboards and reading parts of the description, the amount of effort, people and time involved in a redesign was just a bit more than I was expecting. Looking at the images of the resulting whiteboards alone had me wondering "what could all of this possibly be about?". Details within details about ... something.
And then I went to check if I was even using the redesigned version, which it seems I am ... I just never noticed.
I use it everyday, for chats intermixed with an occasional huddle. Those work as one expects them to, and that's about it. So in my mind it's difficult to mix "chat and huddle app" to the level of effort needed to redesign it. It seems my minimal usage pattern may not typical.
I assume it boils down to there are being many customers, doing many things, it is essentially what Slack the company is, and it has to be done right.
Anyway, the chat and huddle thing works fine, and I'll move on from this topic.