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Please stop making every update require more screen space. Every time, more chrome, bigger fonts, more padding, more views that take over the whole viewport.

doubled112 3y ago
I do miss the density of something like mIRC way back when. I guess when everybody had an 800x600 screen we had to make the most of them. Maybe they could bring back the IRC bridge.
- Sesse__ 3y ago
  You can use wee-slack if you wish. It has an active maintainer and a fairly large user base.
- bink 3y ago
  > Maybe they could bring back the IRC bridge. I think that could only happen if IRC added support for threading.
  - arnvidr 3y ago
    I would be more than happy if threading was completely removed from the app
    - mmh0000 3y ago
      I'm on the opposite side of that argument. I love threading. It allows me to easily have multiple different conversations in the same channel at the same time. And, if I need to, in the future, share that conversation with someone, I can link them directly to that one thread. What would I do otherwise, when I needed a team mate to get up-to speed on a convo that happened months ago... Hey go back to August 8th at 1PM and read everything while filtering out all the things that aren't relavent? Crazy talk! Edit: I will say for this to work, a higher up at your company needs to slap people when they don't use threads. In my org. our CTO is very good about reminding people to use threads.
enra 3y ago
The other side here is that when I've designed apps that more dense, smaller font sizes and UI, people do then complain things are too small. Engineers are generally ok and appreciate density but more mainstream users often don't.
- dylan604 3y ago
  Clearly they need an interface for power users and a separate one for power users' moms
- myaccountonhn 3y ago
  If they exposed an api or used an open protocol, power users could build their own app for slack instead. I really hate this change too, on my laptop, slack has to be full screen to make sense whereas I can have four screens of terminals and email without issue otherwise. Wish they at least made the design adaptive

doubled112 3y ago

I do miss the density of something like mIRC way back when. I guess when everybody had an 800x600 screen we had to make the most of them. Maybe they could bring back the IRC bridge.

Sesse__ 3y ago
You can use wee-slack if you wish. It has an active maintainer and a fairly large user base.
bink 3y ago
> Maybe they could bring back the IRC bridge. I think that could only happen if IRC added support for threading.
- arnvidr 3y ago
  I would be more than happy if threading was completely removed from the app
  - mmh0000 3y ago
    I'm on the opposite side of that argument. I love threading. It allows me to easily have multiple different conversations in the same channel at the same time. And, if I need to, in the future, share that conversation with someone, I can link them directly to that one thread. What would I do otherwise, when I needed a team mate to get up-to speed on a convo that happened months ago... Hey go back to August 8th at 1PM and read everything while filtering out all the things that aren't relavent? Crazy talk! Edit: I will say for this to work, a higher up at your company needs to slap people when they don't use threads. In my org. our CTO is very good about reminding people to use threads.

enra 3y ago

The other side here is that when I've designed apps that more dense, smaller font sizes and UI, people do then complain things are too small. Engineers are generally ok and appreciate density but more mainstream users often don't.

dylan604 3y ago
Clearly they need an interface for power users and a separate one for power users' moms
myaccountonhn 3y ago
If they exposed an api or used an open protocol, power users could build their own app for slack instead. I really hate this change too, on my laptop, slack has to be full screen to make sense whereas I can have four screens of terminals and email without issue otherwise. Wish they at least made the design adaptive