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I just had to use Slack again after 6 years, and it's incredible how much worse its gotten. Honestly I don't know how they managed to make an industry leading t

I just had to use Slack again after 6 years, and it's incredible how much worse its gotten. Honestly I don't know how they managed to make an industry leading tool actively worse by so much that its now _worse_ than Teams. Features it had 6 years ago that I desperately missed when we had to start using Teams are pretty much all gone now. Its such a slap in the face of how Enshittified it's become.

__jonas 1y ago
I'm not really sure what you mean, I'm also coming back to using Slack for some contracting work after a similar period of time and it seems identical to how it always was to me, definitely feels nicer to me than Teams. Could you point out what has changed? I guess calls are called "huddles" now for some reason, that's a bit weird but doesn't really bother me.
- CWIZO 1y ago
  Ine big thing for me is the removal of the reactions & mentions sidebar. I now have to constantly manually check in a special tab to see if someone ACKed my message.
  - stavros 1y ago
    That's moved to activity -> mentions, I think.
- asp_hornet 1y ago
  You used to be able to remote control during desktop sharing.
goosejuice 1y ago
Yet it's better than every single alternative. Teams is a flaming pile of UX poo. Just like the rest of Microsoft products except Excel and _maybe_ Outlook.
- degamad 1y ago
  > except Excel and _maybe_ Outlook. They're fixing that by replacing Outlook with "New Outlook" which is a terrible half-clone of its predecessor.
zhivota 1y ago
Been using it for over 10 years and I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I suppose I didn't use the features you're mentioning. For me, it's basically exactly the same except the sidebar is now wider because of the multi-slack thing, and the home/DMs/activity nonsense bar, which I could do without. Otherwise it's just channels with messages in them. Which has improved since I started using it, when there were no threads or reactjis.

__jonas 1y ago

I'm not really sure what you mean, I'm also coming back to using Slack for some contracting work after a similar period of time and it seems identical to how it always was to me, definitely feels nicer to me than Teams. Could you point out what has changed? I guess calls are called "huddles" now for some reason, that's a bit weird but doesn't really bother me.

CWIZO 1y ago
Ine big thing for me is the removal of the reactions & mentions sidebar. I now have to constantly manually check in a special tab to see if someone ACKed my message.
- stavros 1y ago
  That's moved to activity -> mentions, I think.
asp_hornet 1y ago
You used to be able to remote control during desktop sharing.

goosejuice 1y ago

Yet it's better than every single alternative. Teams is a flaming pile of UX poo. Just like the rest of Microsoft products except Excel and _maybe_ Outlook.

degamad 1y ago
> except Excel and _maybe_ Outlook. They're fixing that by replacing Outlook with "New Outlook" which is a terrible half-clone of its predecessor.

zhivota 1y ago

Been using it for over 10 years and I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I suppose I didn't use the features you're mentioning. For me, it's basically exactly the same except the sidebar is now wider because of the multi-slack thing, and the home/DMs/activity nonsense bar, which I could do without. Otherwise it's just channels with messages in them. Which has improved since I started using it, when there were no threads or reactjis.