The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

Post by qxnqd » Tue, Dec 03, 2019, 10:53 PM UTC

dividedbyzero wrote: post #38

bfrog wrote: post #10

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Just bring back IRC

Ugh no. IRC was great in its day, and I'm sure there are things today that it's still good enough for, but at work, I vastly prefer Slack (and possibly other similar tools, but I haven't power-used any of them yet.) I've been a very, very regular IRC user up until a few years ago. I wouldn't want to go back. With IRC, there is no simple, just-works-for-non-techies way to receive messages if you aren't online; running…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 03, 2019, 10:59 PM UTC

fortytw2 wrote: post #18

It's pretty incredible to think that for all the billions of dollars around Slack it's still fundamentally the same product with the same value add that it was when it first launched. Sure, maybe it's faster or more efficient or whatever now, but what it is at heart is the _exact_ same thing it was on Day 1.

Post by gsich » Tue, Dec 03, 2019, 11:02 PM UTC

fortytw2 wrote: post #18

It's pretty incredible to think that for all the billions of dollars around Slack it's still fundamentally the same product with the same value add that it was when it first launched. Sure, maybe it's faster or more efficient or whatever now, but what it is at heart is the _exact_ same thing it was on Day 1.

Post by peterwwillis » Tue, Dec 03, 2019, 11:06 PM UTC

fortytw2 wrote: post #18

It's pretty incredible to think that for all the billions of dollars around Slack it's still fundamentally the same product with the same value add that it was when it first launched. Sure, maybe it's faster or more efficient or whatever now, but what it is at heart is the _exact_ same thing it was on Day 1.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 03, 2019, 11:10 PM UTC

bottled_poe wrote: post #37

colechristensen wrote: post #27

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Does it need to change? I don't want Slack to be a different or more comprehensive tool.

Yes, in order to provide a competitive advantage over the numerous clones that are already coming along, Slack must continue to innovate.