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I find that the "fat" clients encourage bad behavior that IRC used to allow people to handle independently. Examples: * bot spam that I can't /ignore * "invit

I find that the "fat" clients encourage bad behavior that IRC used to allow people to handle independently. Examples: * bot spam that I can't /ignore * "inviting" people to channels tht you can't opt out of (invite is slack terms is yank. there is not option to say no) * inline sharing of screenshots of article snippets that support an argument but not sharing links to the source material * so... many... channels...

giantrobot 5y ago
> so... many... channels... To compound the problem of many channels the UI uses an insipid three column layout. I like to arrange chat windows, tail -f terminal windows, and other monitoring things in a "dashboard" layout in a workspace. That way it can update in the background and if I am curious about the state of something I can decide to context switch and bring up that workspace to get an update. I can then deal with an issue or go back to the task at hand. Slack and HipChat and all the other Electron-based attention siphons do not let me arrange their UI in a way that works for me. I hate notifications with the heat of a thousand suns and turn just about all of them off on all my devices. Slack et all hide the state of all but one channel by default and want to use notifications or stupid icons to show there's unread activity. It's the worst UI on the dumbest system but animated emojis!