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Re: Slack is down for some users

#81

Post by anderspitman »

epivosism wrote: post #72

Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories: * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to: " work. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works wel…

Sorry, but dropping Markdown support in favor of an input UX that is to this day atrocious gives me little faith in Slack's user stories moving forward. I'm fine if they want to make the default mode more intuitive for a broader audience, but I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode.

EDIT: See comments below for instructions on re-enabling Markdown mode.

Re: Slack is down for some users

#82

Post by ISL »

jordache wrote: post #76
epivosism wrote: post #72

Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories: * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to: " work. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works wel…

It sucks in that you can't edit the image attached to a message. Only text.. WTH? Why not?

Agreed. Major pain point for me. Can't reshuffle image order, either.

Re: Slack is down for some users

#83

Post by dijit »

typon wrote: post #34

Genuine question for those running self hosted tools like Jitsi: how often are your outages? How quickly do you repair them?

I run an IRC network in my spare time that has had 13 minutes of actual downtime in the last 15 years (and about 20-25 additional minutes of degraded availability).

The degraded availability thing is because I run multiple servers for latency, normally an IRC outage is super clear, except with netsplits where IRC servers themselves unlink from each other. (I average about 3 of those a year and they last about 30s roughly).

It's not video though, so that doesn't answer your question thoroughly.

Re: Slack is down for some users

#84

Post by jrm4 »

bitexploder wrote: post #31
rythmshifter03 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't encourage the use of Zoom, they already have enough market share they don't deserve after lying through their teeth to the public on multiple occasions.

What alternatives do you recommend? As far as I can tell none of the major video conferencing solutions are made by companies I think are any more trustworthy than Zoom at this point. Plus Google and others ran a focused assassination campaign against Zoom at the start of the pandemic to claw some of their market share.

Discord is easily best quality for now, Matrix/Jitsi is easily best future vision. Everything else can go away.

Re: Slack is down for some users

#85

Post by eurasiantiger »

anderspitman wrote: post #81
epivosism wrote: post #72

Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories: * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to: " work. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works wel…

Sorry, but dropping Markdown support in favor of an input UX that is to this day atrocious gives me little faith in Slack's user stories moving forward. I'm fine if they want to make the default mode more intuitive for a broader audience, but I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode. EDIT: See comments below for instructions on re-enabling Markdown mode.

They have one. Kinda.

Re: Slack is down for some users

#86

Post by niij »

anderspitman wrote: post #81
epivosism wrote: post #72

Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories: * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to: " work. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works wel…

Sorry, but dropping Markdown support in favor of an input UX that is to this day atrocious gives me little faith in Slack's user stories moving forward. I'm fine if they want to make the default mode more intuitive for a broader audience, but I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode. EDIT: See comments below for instructions on re-enabling Markdown mode.

Preferences --> Advanced --> Format messages with markup.

̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶s̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶r̶t̶ ̶m̶a̶r̶k̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶s̶t̶y̶l̶e̶ ̶U̶R̶L̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶:̶ ̶ ̶[̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶t̶e̶!̶]̶(̶h̶t̶t̶p̶s̶:̶/̶/̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶.̶c̶o̶m̶)̶ Never mind, it looks like Slack has fixed this!

Re: Slack is down for some users

#87

Post by Arubis »

anderspitman wrote: post #81
epivosism wrote: post #72

Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories: * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to: " work. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works wel…

Sorry, but dropping Markdown support in favor of an input UX that is to this day atrocious gives me little faith in Slack's user stories moving forward. I'm fine if they want to make the default mode more intuitive for a broader audience, but I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode. EDIT: See comments below for instructions on re-enabling Markdown mode.

Settings -> Advanced -> Format Messages with Markup may be the first thing worth doing for you when Slack comes back online.

Re: Slack is down for some users

#88

Post by eurasiantiger »

bitexploder wrote: post #31
rythmshifter03 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't encourage the use of Zoom, they already have enough market share they don't deserve after lying through their teeth to the public on multiple occasions.

What alternatives do you recommend? As far as I can tell none of the major video conferencing solutions are made by companies I think are any more trustworthy than Zoom at this point. Plus Google and others ran a focused assassination campaign against Zoom at the start of the pandemic to claw some of their market share.

Self-hosted Matrix

Re: Slack is down for some users

#89

Post by [deleted] »

anderspitman wrote: post #81
epivosism wrote: post #72

Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories: * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to: " work. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works wel…

Sorry, but dropping Markdown support in favor of an input UX that is to this day atrocious gives me little faith in Slack's user stories moving forward. I'm fine if they want to make the default mode more intuitive for a broader audience, but I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode. EDIT: See comments below for instructions on re-enabling Markdown mode.

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