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This is what "opinionated" looks like.
Something something Steve Jobs
When others try to emulate him, it doesn't go as well.
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>For mobile users: Damn near impossible to read on my 4k desktop monitor too. Is there a reason people are so insistent on using the monospace formatting for quotes?
I tried using a quote first, but the fact that you need to double-space between paragraphs, even when using the > symbol broke the formatting. To avoid spending too much time figuring it out, I switched to blockquote. Sorry!
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I set the env variable but I can't seem to get the access to devtools? Only regular menu appears on right-click.
slack tends to keep a process in the background that needs to be killed and restarted when you "close" it. did you run `pkill slack` or similar and then restart?
I don't use slack so the issue isn't on my radar, but if this has made it to the top of HN.... I guess Slack reeeealy effed up.
I think it's the product of popularity and the impact of the bug. Slack is exceedingly popular, so any change is going to come under a lot of scrutiny. It is not clear to me how many new features Slack needs. Clearly people were able to successfully use the old text-entry UI; there was no shortage of Slack messages. I feel like it would be better for them to focus on things that will add value to their platform witho…
I don't use slack so the issue isn't on my radar, but if this has made it to the top of HN.... I guess Slack reeeealy effed up.
i get it, i typed a couple snippets already with backticks and it did weird stuff. took 5 minutes and guess what dont care
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I don't understand the point of electron for applications whose functionality is entirely dependent on being online anyway. At that point, just use a browser as it's one fewer item to install. Is the Electron version of Slack capable of anything beyond the browser version?
You can include native code in Electron apps. I am not sure it is actually needed in any of the messaging Electron apps (Slack, Discord), but the capability is there. My favorite Electron app is Balena Etcher. It is "dd" but uses 200MB of RAM. It is AMAZING.
Discord has options for streaming your game to others, identifying running processes to display games as your status, downloading and launching games, and displaying a chat overlay on top of external game processes.
Some of those can be accomplished in a roundabout way without native code, but I think it's safe to say Discord benefits from that ability.
You can do it in the desktop app as well. If you run it with SLACK_DEVELOPER_MENU=true in env vars, it'll enable you to right click to Inspect Element, open devtools and run this code snippet there
If you create the following plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents, macOS will set that env variable every time you log in (except if you tell it to reopen windows when logging back in). Change "NAME.OF.FILE" to the plist's filename without the .plist extension.
Label
NAME.OF.FILE
RunAtLoad
ProgramArguments
sh
-c
launchctl setenv SLACK_DEVELOPER_MENU true
I don't use slack so the issue isn't on my radar, but if this has made it to the top of HN.... I guess Slack reeeealy effed up.
It’s a tempest in a teapot. Yes, the new editor is horrible. But at best it is a minor annoyance, and most users learn to work around it.