Slack is down for some users

Post by anderspitman » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 4:44 PM UTC

niij wrote: post #86

anderspitman wrote: post #81

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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!

Post by jakswa » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 4:45 PM UTC

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.

  I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode.

  Format messages with markup
  The text formatting toolbar won’t show in the composer.

Post by philote » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 4:46 PM UTC

MattRix wrote: post #56

bitexploder wrote: post #31

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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.

I know it’s not seen as a professional service, but Discord has great quality video chat (better than Zoom, for example). I don’t know if its privacy/security would hold up for larger companies but we use it in my tiny company with no issues at all.

Post by niij » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 4:50 PM UTC

ihuman wrote: post #92

niij wrote: post #86

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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!

They originally got rid of markdown completely when they added the WYSIWYG editor, then added that preference after people complained

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 4:51 PM UTC

niij wrote: post #86

anderspitman wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!