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"Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday"

www.theverge.com Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday

It’s trying to be a better messaging app — but also lots of other things.

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Kinda just looks like Teams...

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- 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
  
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- Yeah, taking some of the good stuff from teams, I prefer slack overall but teams does have some interesting ideas
  
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  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.
  
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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.

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- 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.
  
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NO WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO US IT LOOKS LIKE TEAMS NOW

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I just desperately want an opt-out of the auto-mute when being alone in a huddle

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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

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So what's the alternative if this is no good? Is there a FOSS Slack?

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- Yes, there is https://mattermost.com/
  
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- I've used Ripcord before, and it was a bit janky but hellishly fast and light weight.
  
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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

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I’m a big fan from what is visible in that article.

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I don’t know if this will be any better but I know I can never find shit in Slack.

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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.

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- I don't get it. How are file paths supposed to work across different machines?
  
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  Network mapped volumes, I assume
  
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I still prefer discord but good move on thier part.

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- Well I dont think your corpo daddy will accept China data access on discord
  
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