The screenshots look like it now takes more clicks to get to groups/conversations than before. That appears like it will make me less productive instead of more.
I hope I’m wrong about this.
"Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday"
Submitted 1 year ago by eager_eagle@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23824562/slack-redesign-app-dms-activity-later?
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narnach@feddit.nl 1 year ago
doctortofu@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Same - right now I have a list of DMs that shows full names and is immediately accessible - to me that’s significantly easier to look through than a mockup of a phone interface…
I’m using Slack on desktop and for work - not a fun of makig it look like I’m texting my buddies from my phone.
bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I just desperately want an opt-out of the auto-mute when being alone in a huddle
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I have my doubts. Making Slack less distracting would be directly antithetical to Slack’s monetary interests. Long term, I’d love to be proven wrong, but I have my suspicions that where this is going is slack wants to gain more users, and then slowly ratchet the noise back up
alansuspect@aussie.zone 1 year ago
So what’s the alternative if this is no good? Is there a FOSS Slack?
jukey@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yes, there is mattermost.com
Jeeva@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I’ve used Ripcord before, and it was a bit janky but hellishly fast and light weight.
thisisdee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As long as cmd + k still allows me to find DMs and/channels I think it’s not too bad. I feel like I prefer the current design mostly because I don’t need a quick glance of the latest message, just that I have unread message, but I won’t know until I try
Solgrund@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I still prefer discord but good move on thier part.
sadreality@kbin.social 1 year ago
Well I dont think your corpo daddy will accept China data access on discord
bisq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m a big fan from what is visible in that article.
underthesign@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just wish there was a way to get it to handle processing of folder and file paths to your environment. They say it’s a security thing which I get, but my team is constantly sharing links to files and folders and it’s a PITA having to copy and paste the links into Explorer. If there was some way of making it work securely it would be a big productivity boost a d QOL improvement.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t get it. How are file paths supposed to work across different machines?
_Mantissa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Network mapped volumes, I assume
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know if this will be any better but I know I can never find shit in Slack.
Tamilas@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Kinda just looks like Teams…
Lumun@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yeah I agree - the Activity tab and the DMs look like they are exact copies of the Teams interface. I mean, it’s an intuitive way to display info but I don’t see much design innovation with this announcement
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, taking some of the good stuff from teams, I prefer slack overall but teams does have some interesting ideas
grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Like periodically not recognizing why audio device on my computer. Or just not sending notifications sometimes. Or not recognizing @ autocompletes. Stuff like that. :)
Sorry, it’s been a long day.