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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 sa

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:<channel name>" 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 well, channel grouping works right. * I want to give a public emotional response to someone's statement => reactions * I want to continue discussion of a point someone made, which may not be relevant to everyone in the channel => threads * I want to edit a typo I just made => hit up on keyboard It's got that quality Factorio has, where you can let yourself imagine it is the ideal product, and start expecting features you need to be there, rather than not bothering to explore because you think they won't be. It is AMAZINGLY good at solving actual user stories around communication. I have lots of respect for their PMs.

iandanforth 5y ago
ctrl+k should be 'create link on highlighted text', I'm constantly frustrated by this.
- caleb_thompson 5y ago
  Ah but ctrl-v while highlighting text with a URL on the clipboard creating a link is such a nice experience. I honestly wish I could do that everywhere.
- brandonmenc 5y ago
  ctrl+k should be "kill line" and I'm constantly frustrated by the "create link" behavior in apps like Confluence.
  - ectopod 5y ago
    What? ctrl+k should enter a digraph.
jordache 5y ago
It sucks in that you can't edit the image attached to a message. Only text.. WTH? Why not?
- ISL 5y ago
  Agreed. Major pain point for me. Can't reshuffle image order, either.
  - jordache 5y ago
    it's like they just don't care. Why can't you have image inline with text? I hate to waste energy to refer to attached images in my text ("regarding the 2nd image")
anderspitman 5y ago
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.
- Arubis 5y ago
  Settings -> Advanced -> Format Messages with Markup may be the first thing worth doing for you when Slack comes back online.
- eurasiantiger 5y ago
  They have one. Kinda.
- niij 5y ago
  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!
  - goerz 5y ago
    I think it does, but only when "Format messages with markup" is on, see https://slack.com/help/articles/202288908-Format-your-messages https://slack.com/help/articles/202288908-Format-your-messag... and the asterisk at the bottom
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - anderspitman 5y ago
    THANK YOU Honestly surprised I haven't come across this before. Also, link formatting seems to be working for me?
johnward 5y ago
I love slack. Slack search is terrible for me, but maybe it's the quality of data it has to search through.
- schnevets 5y ago
  I'm curious about how many users are on your organization's Slack. I consider it one of my go-to sources for my org that has had between 250-300 people for the past 3 years. I can see it being suboptimal for a bigger company, though.
  - thamer 5y ago
    I'm in an organization with many thousands of people and find search to work very well. Does the pricing plan influence the amount of resources your organization can use? e.g. slow search on the free plan, but much better on Enterprise Grid.
zestyping 5y ago
Significant regressions in Slack: * I used to be able to type a message containing "@channel" or "@here" and just hit Enter without looking, and 100% of the time it would be parsed correctly. Now it fails to detect the "@channel" or "@here" often enough that I have to look to see if it failed, then go back and retype that part of the message until it lights up. Once a week or so, I see a message posted by someone else that contains "@channel" in black, and they expected the message to notify everyone but it didn't. * Recently Slack pushed everyone to switch from usernames to full names with spaces, and eliminated the entire concept of unique usernames. There were many annoying consequences to this, one of which is that when I type "@name", now I have to look to see if it highlighted, or look to interact with the drop-down menu, instead of just typing and knowing it will work. * Searching also got worse for the same reason. When I type "@name" in the search bar, it NEVER lights up. For 90% of searches this means I can no longer type in a search query and just press Enter. I always have to look through the drop-down menu and either mouse-click or press down-arrow repeatedly to get to the thing I want.
- Mandatum 5y ago
  > * Recently Slack pushed everyone to switch from usernames to full names with spaces, and eliminated the entire concept of unique usernames. That's your Slack settings my dude, blame your admins.

iandanforth 5y ago

ctrl+k should be 'create link on highlighted text', I'm constantly frustrated by this.

caleb_thompson 5y ago
Ah but ctrl-v while highlighting text with a URL on the clipboard creating a link is such a nice experience. I honestly wish I could do that everywhere.
brandonmenc 5y ago
ctrl+k should be "kill line" and I'm constantly frustrated by the "create link" behavior in apps like Confluence.
- ectopod 5y ago
  What? ctrl+k should enter a digraph.

jordache 5y ago

It sucks in that you can't edit the image attached to a message. Only text.. WTH? Why not?

ISL 5y ago
Agreed. Major pain point for me. Can't reshuffle image order, either.
- jordache 5y ago
  it's like they just don't care. Why can't you have image inline with text? I hate to waste energy to refer to attached images in my text ("regarding the 2nd image")

anderspitman 5y ago

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.

Arubis 5y ago
Settings -> Advanced -> Format Messages with Markup may be the first thing worth doing for you when Slack comes back online.
eurasiantiger 5y ago
They have one. Kinda.
niij 5y ago
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!
- goerz 5y ago
  I think it does, but only when "Format messages with markup" is on, see https://slack.com/help/articles/202288908-Format-your-messages https://slack.com/help/articles/202288908-Format-your-messag... and the asterisk at the bottom
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- anderspitman 5y ago
  THANK YOU Honestly surprised I haven't come across this before. Also, link formatting seems to be working for me?

johnward 5y ago

I love slack. Slack search is terrible for me, but maybe it's the quality of data it has to search through.

schnevets 5y ago
I'm curious about how many users are on your organization's Slack. I consider it one of my go-to sources for my org that has had between 250-300 people for the past 3 years. I can see it being suboptimal for a bigger company, though.
- thamer 5y ago
  I'm in an organization with many thousands of people and find search to work very well. Does the pricing plan influence the amount of resources your organization can use? e.g. slow search on the free plan, but much better on Enterprise Grid.

zestyping 5y ago

Significant regressions in Slack: * I used to be able to type a message containing "@channel" or "@here" and just hit Enter without looking, and 100% of the time it would be parsed correctly. Now it fails to detect the "@channel" or "@here" often enough that I have to look to see if it failed, then go back and retype that part of the message until it lights up. Once a week or so, I see a message posted by someone else that contains "@channel" in black, and they expected the message to notify everyone but it didn't. * Recently Slack pushed everyone to switch from usernames to full names with spaces, and eliminated the entire concept of unique usernames. There were many annoying consequences to this, one of which is that when I type "@name", now I have to look to see if it highlighted, or look to interact with the drop-down menu, instead of just typing and knowing it will work. * Searching also got worse for the same reason. When I type "@name" in the search bar, it NEVER lights up. For 90% of searches this means I can no longer type in a search query and just press Enter. I always have to look through the drop-down menu and either mouse-click or press down-arrow repeatedly to get to the thing I want.

Mandatum 5y ago
> * Recently Slack pushed everyone to switch from usernames to full names with spaces, and eliminated the entire concept of unique usernames. That's your Slack settings my dude, blame your admins.