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Re: Dark Mode for Slack

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Post by sincerely »

benburleson wrote: post #62
anaphor wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My main two feature requests would be: - Add a way to mute notifications from an individual user - Add a way to organize threads by topic For the first one, I believe they've said they will never implement it. For the second one, I'm holding out that someone will realize how crappy the threading implementation is, but I don't have much hope.

Oh man, completely muting a user would be amazing.

Unfortunately I believe they've said "since this is a product for professional workplaces we don't see a need for this feature".

Re: Dark Mode for Slack

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Post by saagarjha »

sincerely wrote: post #81
benburleson wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh man, completely muting a user would be amazing.

Unfortunately I believe they've said "since this is a product for professional workplaces we don't see a need for this feature".

Professional workspaces always contain chatty people…

Re: Dark Mode for Slack

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Post by samtimalsina »

rolleiflex wrote: post #66

Human eye’s signal amplification curve is not linear. [1] You can’t convert an existing app to dark mode so much as building a new design for it, or it looks weird. Youtube’s Dark mode is an example of this uncanny valley. Funnily enough, they themselves illustrated the issue with the first image on their post, in how weird the version on the left looks. Besides - what we need isn’t a full dark mode, it’s an app that…

> Youtube’s Dark mode is an example of this uncanny valley.

What uncanny valley? I have been using Youtube's dark mode for a while now, and much prefer it to the default light mode. The light mode appears jarring and "noisy" for some reason.

Re: Dark Mode for Slack

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Post by radiKal07 »

Cyberdog wrote: post #29

I've been using an unofficial Discord and Slack client called Ripcord for a while now. https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ It uses a dark theme by default, which is very appreciated. Another huge plus is that it's not Electron garbage like the official Slack and Discord clients, so you don't have to effectively run one or two other entire web browsers just to do a bit of chatting. On the other hand, it is Qt garbage instead,…

Does Slack screen-sharing work?

Re: Dark Mode for Slack

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Post by [deleted] »

Cyberdog wrote: post #29

I've been using an unofficial Discord and Slack client called Ripcord for a while now. https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ It uses a dark theme by default, which is very appreciated. Another huge plus is that it's not Electron garbage like the official Slack and Discord clients, so you don't have to effectively run one or two other entire web browsers just to do a bit of chatting. On the other hand, it is Qt garbage instead,…

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Re: Dark Mode for Slack

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Post by barnabee »

Diti wrote: post #8

RIP IRC, which had the advantage of offering people the opportunity to use any client they like.

It sucks that the protocol is proprietary but there seems to be a reasonably healthy ecosystem of 3rd party Slack clients so that advantage isn’t totally gone.

I find the wee-slack plugin for the WeeChat IRC client to be pretty good (https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack)

Re: Dark Mode for Slack

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Post by giggles_giggles »

ilikehurdles wrote: post #78
makewavesnotwar wrote: post #47

Funny that as Discord releases a light theme, Slack releases a dark theme. But in seriousness, does Slack really have any value proposition over Discord beyond Screen Hero these days? I switched my organization over to Discord based on the ability to create public channels for testers/customers to communicate with my team on the server without any role-based overhead (also because my target market is largely the Twit…

I do not trust Discord on data privacy. It's not just the target market being the gamer crowd, its focus on promoting gaming content is beyond distracting for a work setting. Take its font-and-center features: - The primary page with all the game and stream ads has zero value for productivity. - Its voice chat is great but not nearly as valuable as a video meeting integration. - I don't need or want to know what appl…

I don't see why Slack would be more trustworthy than Discord when it comes to data privacy, when we're talking about a company that failed to disclose a breach for 5 years.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/slack-password-breach/

If you care about your data, you have to be able to own it, and neither Slack nor Discord offers that option.

Re: Dark Mode for Slack

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Post by saagarjha »

t0mbstone wrote: post #48
Scarbutt wrote: post #20

Is dark mode a fashion thing or does it really helps with eye strain? In darker surroundings, I just lower the brightness.

Dark mode also saves on battery life (quite significantly). That's one of the biggest reasons why Apple is rolling dark mode out on the iPhone.

Dark mode doesn’t really have that much of an impact for most use, and I’m fairly sure Apple was more likely to have added to to iOS because they had just done so with macOS.

Re: Dark Mode for Slack

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Post by rolleiflex »

samtimalsina wrote: post #83
rolleiflex wrote: post #66

Human eye’s signal amplification curve is not linear. [1] You can’t convert an existing app to dark mode so much as building a new design for it, or it looks weird. Youtube’s Dark mode is an example of this uncanny valley. Funnily enough, they themselves illustrated the issue with the first image on their post, in how weird the version on the left looks. Besides - what we need isn’t a full dark mode, it’s an app that…

> Youtube’s Dark mode is an example of this uncanny valley. What uncanny valley? I have been using Youtube's dark mode for a while now, and much prefer it to the default light mode. The light mode appears jarring and "noisy" for some reason.

It's definitely better than the light mode, but it's still a very 'skin' kind of implementation. For an example on the contrary, Twitter's dark mode is a much better reimplementation than YouTube's.
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