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"Get your employees addicted to work notifications" seems to be one of their core premises, and this redesign is yet another step in that direction. The bigges

"Get your employees addicted to work notifications" seems to be one of their core premises, and this redesign is yet another step in that direction. The biggest issue of this redesign for me was getting rid of the "unread message badge" both on the desktop app icon and the browser tab. They used to have a badge with numbers for missed notifications (e.g. direct messages) and one (empty circle) for unread messages, but now a missed direct message and the 100th message on an HR channel thread show the same badge. I found that Slack was nagging for more of my attention after the redesign (gotta get those engagement numbers up!). I ended up using a Chrome extension (Tab Modifier) to hide the Slack tab's badges.

AlotOfReading 3y ago
They also made a fairly subtle change to what the "new messages" status actually means. Previously, it meant you hadn't clicked on a channel yet. The status would clear as soon as the action was taken, even before the network requests to load the channel were finished. This meant you could go through and clear dozens of channels pretty quickly without reading them. Now, that status is only cleared after the client fully reloads the channel, which can take multiple seconds (yay, modern software). As someone with dozens of channels I don't read and can't organize, it's very tedious to clear them so I can focus on the channels I actually care about.
- stvltvs 3y ago
  Maybe mute channels you don't intend to read?
  - AlotOfReading 3y ago
    Muting also prevents highlights and @here from notifying properly. It's a very different thing.
city41 3y ago
At least on Linux they've never allowed turning off the "blue dot" notification. Thankfully people figured out how to turn it off by hacking the JS code: https://superuser.com/questions/1211975/slack-app-on-linux-how-to-disable-the-blue-circle-icon-on-channel-activity https://superuser.com/questions/1211975/slack-app-on-linux-h...

AlotOfReading 3y ago

They also made a fairly subtle change to what the "new messages" status actually means. Previously, it meant you hadn't clicked on a channel yet. The status would clear as soon as the action was taken, even before the network requests to load the channel were finished. This meant you could go through and clear dozens of channels pretty quickly without reading them. Now, that status is only cleared after the client fully reloads the channel, which can take multiple seconds (yay, modern software). As someone with dozens of channels I don't read and can't organize, it's very tedious to clear them so I can focus on the channels I actually care about.

stvltvs 3y ago
Maybe mute channels you don't intend to read?
- AlotOfReading 3y ago
  Muting also prevents highlights and @here from notifying properly. It's a very different thing.

city41 3y ago

At least on Linux they've never allowed turning off the "blue dot" notification. Thankfully people figured out how to turn it off by hacking the JS code: https://superuser.com/questions/1211975/slack-app-on-linux-how-to-disable-the-blue-circle-icon-on-channel-activity https://superuser.com/questions/1211975/slack-app-on-linux-h...