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Still waiting for an option to disable "drafts" (channels all of a sudden jumping to the top of the channel list)
Your mistake is showing a channel list. Hide unread channels; it's the only way to use Slack IMO.
Amazing to see how Slack turned from something everyone raved about to something everyone is sort of annoyed with and critical of. Maybe that isn't that surprising for most products as they age/mature but it seems particularly acute with Slack.
Dark mode, better performances, option to disable divisive new features: Slack might be making it harder to focus at work but the product itself improved quite a lot in 2019, kudos to the PMs.
Side comment: I've tried to use Slack's dark mode but had to quit. I was constantly having to download images to be able to read the black-over-transparent background of matplotlib images (that's apparently the default for the axis, markings, legends, etc.) It's not a matter of changing my code, too, because I want to see the images posted by _other_ people
I have thought about why ggl hangouts at my current employer has been ok. We mostly only use direct, 1 to 1 windows so any activity is certainly to be relevant, and nothing important scrolls off screen.
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Does it need to change? I don't want Slack to be a different or more comprehensive tool.
Probably not, but why do they need the billions of dollars of funding and steep subscription cost then? The per-user cost is only Silicon Valley reasonable - it's nearly as high as GSuite which provides a lot more value, and if so many other major business suite companies (Google, MSFT) weren't absolutely terrible at building chat applications I'm pretty sure Slack would be forced out of the market (or to actually co…
One could start reducing the engineering and sales force, focus on polish and maintenance, gradually reduce price and collect on a successful useful product. That kind of declaring victory doesn't happen though so products get engineered into uselessness and get bought out by companies who collect on them by neglecting them until only people who happened to get stuck are still using them and everybody moved on to the next hot thing.
It's hard to justify CEO and management salaries when you decide your product is finished so instead they just keep doing things and end up ruining something great.
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Your mistake is showing a channel list. Hide unread channels; it's the only way to use Slack IMO.
Wow. Thank you! 4+ years of using slack and this is one of a genuinely useful things I just learned.
Amazing to see how Slack turned from something everyone raved about to something everyone is sort of annoyed with and critical of. Maybe that isn't that surprising for most products as they age/mature but it seems particularly acute with Slack.
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” -- Bjarne Stroustrup I've found this quote extremely true, but not just with programming language but with all things. People complain about Slack because they use Slack a lot, so minor quibbles become a daily frustration. It is when people go quiet about a product that you should really worry. They're either extremely h…
> I've found this quote extremely true
My impression of Python, Ruby, etc. hasn't been that they're in either of those categories, though I'll grant you that they don't compete in the same space as C++...
1. Their customer support emphatically told me they wouldn’t make this an option AND
2. They didn’t even need to do a new release to turn on the option.
At least their engineering team is still making good decisions :)
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Not sure Chromium is to blame here. All the WYSIWYGs in all the environments I've ever seen I found fiddly and unpleasant to use.
The above demo works fine in Firefox, FWIW. I had a large hand in building a WYSIWYG email editor a few years back, using direct DOM editing, that was the most full featured available at the time. I would only recommend it to people with very high pain tolerance, as the differences between browsers are stark, undocumented and hard to work around.
I'd expect there to be 2 positions between the "e" and the "t" that the cursor would stop at so I can either insert text with the formatting of "one" or "two"