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By “simpler” I’m sure they mean “lower memory footprint” and “more stable” - right? I would really just be happy if they made the video calls work more reliabl

By “simpler” I’m sure they mean “lower memory footprint” and “more stable” - right? I would really just be happy if they made the video calls work more reliably. It’s really important now that my whole team is working from home. It’s a common occurrence that video calls fail to connect and everyone going into a call has to restart their client. Over the years Slack has become more and more bloated. I think the scope has increased beyond where it’s possible to have a stable Electron app. It’s a shame because the core functionality they offer seems like it should be pretty simple to get right.

guessmyname 7y ago
> By “simpler” I’m sure they mean “lower memory footprint” and “more stable” - right? Maybe, but most of the changes that triggered this blog post are UI/UX related as you can see in these GIFs [1][2][3][4]. [1] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risman_IA-launch_UI.gif https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma... [2] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risman_IA-launch_Compose.gif https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma... [3] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risman_IA-launch_Collections.gif https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma... [4] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risman_IA-launch_Actions.gif https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma...
capableweb 7y ago
If you read beyond two words from the title, you'll see the full title is "Introducing a simpler, more organized Slack" which includes "organized", so probably not related to performance or stability in any way. Subtitle is "We’re releasing a series of improvements that make working in Slack easier for everyone" which also implies this is all UX work. Your whole comment feels off-topic in regards to this, and could have been made to any Slack submission to HN. Maybe there should be a different channel for general complaints?
- henriquez 7y ago
  I should have rephrased. I believe Slack's UX team is looking for solutions to problems nobody actually cares about. Meanwhile the tempo of so-called improvements that end up being harmful to the product seems to have made the entire app unstable. The fact that they have to publicly back away from new features after customers revolt, like their ill-fated rich text editor, seems to confirm that nobody wants this stuff. In my opinion I think Slack's time would be better spent collecting money and maybe building native clients for various operating systems. It was fine in 2017. I wish their UX team would just stop.
  - akerl_ 7y ago
    I am a Slack user, and I am super excited for the changes in this announcement, especially custom channel organization. Thank you, Slack, for this UX work.
- vorpalhex 7y ago
  Making slack simpler and easier for everyone could be accomplished by.. removing features. Which in turn would boost performance and reduce memory usage. I'd actually really like if that was the case, instead of them leaning into more bad UI practices ala the broken WYSIWYG editor of doom.

guessmyname 7y ago

> By “simpler” I’m sure they mean “lower memory footprint” and “more stable” - right? Maybe, but most of the changes that triggered this blog post are UI/UX related as you can see in these GIFs [1][2][3][4]. [1] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risman_IA-launch_UI.gif https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma... [2] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risman_IA-launch_Compose.gif https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma... [3] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risman_IA-launch_Collections.gif https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma... [4] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risman_IA-launch_Actions.gif https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma...

capableweb 7y ago

If you read beyond two words from the title, you'll see the full title is "Introducing a simpler, more organized Slack" which includes "organized", so probably not related to performance or stability in any way. Subtitle is "We’re releasing a series of improvements that make working in Slack easier for everyone" which also implies this is all UX work. Your whole comment feels off-topic in regards to this, and could have been made to any Slack submission to HN. Maybe there should be a different channel for general complaints?

henriquez 7y ago
I should have rephrased. I believe Slack's UX team is looking for solutions to problems nobody actually cares about. Meanwhile the tempo of so-called improvements that end up being harmful to the product seems to have made the entire app unstable. The fact that they have to publicly back away from new features after customers revolt, like their ill-fated rich text editor, seems to confirm that nobody wants this stuff. In my opinion I think Slack's time would be better spent collecting money and maybe building native clients for various operating systems. It was fine in 2017. I wish their UX team would just stop.
- akerl_ 7y ago
  I am a Slack user, and I am super excited for the changes in this announcement, especially custom channel organization. Thank you, Slack, for this UX work.
vorpalhex 7y ago
Making slack simpler and easier for everyone could be accomplished by.. removing features. Which in turn would boost performance and reduce memory usage. I'd actually really like if that was the case, instead of them leaning into more bad UI practices ala the broken WYSIWYG editor of doom.