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Slack: A redesigned Slack, built for focus
- ktosobcy 3y agoI think that slack and focus contradicts each other... never managed to find out the benefits of slack, most of the time it's just a noise...
- barbazoo 3y agoOut of the box, I would agree. With notification settings set up across channels, I would disagree.
- windmark 3y agoI agree. I can manage my notifications across more channels a lot better in Slack than in MS Teams
- Minor49er 3y agoI lose focus when editing messages in Slack because their input box does not respect things like the keyboard's home and end keys which turns simple changes into confusing chores. Unfortunately, their support staff told me that basic editing is not a priority and will never be addressed
- smcleod 3y agoThis annoys me every single day, have logged several bugs for it but haven’t really gotten anywhere.
- smcleod 3y agoHonestly, I do find that Slack helps me focus. I can pretty easily make sure that I ignore non-critical rooms, and only get notifications if someone @‘s me. It would be really nice if as a user you could suppress all @here, @channel etc shouts and only enable them for a few specific rooms. Overall Slack + 100% remote work has massively improved my focus and ability to get things done while remaining social and involved.
- PNewling 3y agoYou sure you don't want to get lost into MS Teams? Where you lose chats all the time and can hardly paste codes and links without it all going wonky? Joking aside, I am will you on the 100% remote + slack fondness. I'll also regularly mute all if I'm trying to do a deep work session for a couple of hours.
- smcleod 3y agoMS teams is a dumpster fire, no one should be forced to use that piece of crap for communication.
- danw1979 3y agoTeams doesn’t even implement scrolling backwards through message history correctly - it’s like some kind of janky game of precise mouse control to see if you can get it to stay still on the message you’re interested in.
- dzikimarian 3y agoWell, what's the alternative? If you expect someone will write you an email and wait 2 days for the reply, then you're in for a disappointment. They'll just call you.
- ktosobcy 3y agoWe do use XMPP, and by default I disabled notifications for all groupchat rooms so I get instant notification for 1-to-1 chats and can respond and ignore the rest. In Slack it's quite common (from my observation) to ping lots of people at one time and also create channels for all sorts of notifications (build failure, like it had to be _instant_... what for?!)
- dzikimarian 3y agoYou can customize notifications in slack and leave only 1:1 if you want https://slack.com/help/articles/360056534254-Manage-notifications-for-specific-channels-and-direct-messages https://slack.com/help/articles/360056534254-Manage-notifica... I find having easily accessible feed from monitoring tools pretty useful.
- klardotsh 3y agoJust publish an open and fully documented API so folks can build their own clients (or use those written by folks they share UX opinions with) and these constant redesigns that will inevitably break folks' muscle memories and piss people off won't be necessary, come on, Slack! Anyway, can't wait to have to re-learn a bunch of stuff for Glossy IRC yet again...
- Minor49er 3y agoUnfortunately, IRC does not allow a lot of modern features that we take for granted, such as seeing a channel's history upon joining, roles, reacts, or message editing. Last I checked, the latest IRC spec doesn't support most of these either. It might be worth working on something open and new
- klardotsh 3y agoI'm strongly of the opinion these days that channel scrollback history is an anti-feature. Anything that depends on Slack Search to be found, is in formation that should be captured in "hard documentation" - markdown docs in a git repo, Notion,even Google Docs or whatever. Roles do "somewhat" exist in IRC, in the sense that you can have ops and admins, but I suppose it's not quite as fully-fledged as something like Discord's roles. Reacts and editing indeed don't exist. Reacts are something I've pondered what an IRCv3 extension for might look like - maybe I should poke at that some day in prototype form. Message edits, well. Sure, you don't have them. You can send a follow up "s/foo/bar" kind of text, and some clients will even understand that as an edit of your last message, but of course it's not perfect. Anyway. I'd be fully happy if Slack disappeared tomorrow and we all went back to IRC, but I realize that I'm both technical, and someone who grew up on IRC. It wouldn't be perfect for everyone. But damn do I wish that reality could exist.
- Minor49er 3y agoIsn't hard capture the same as scrollback history?
- adrianmsmith 3y ago
- pavel_lishin 3y agoSee also, this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37063576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37063576
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoVertical tab bar and more submenus. Gotcha.
- slotrans 3y agoquit redesigning it and spend the effort making it use MB of RAM instead of GB if BitchX and mIRC can do it, Slack can do it, but they have to try
- dgellow 3y agoWould love for them to improve on that front but they have little incentives to do so.
- bechampion 3y agoI love slack , but they gotta get their game together , this year I have personally seen around 4 or 5 outages, what annoys me the most is the way the app fails, it simply greys out text that you just sent , images take forever to upload (if they ever upload) , i think if you gonna have this many outages maybe build something into the UI
- tete 3y agoI wished they'd simply start fixing their bugs after a decade.
- skc 3y agoSo now it looks more like Teams.
- aiunboxed 3y agoBest way to focus is to not use slack.