Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday
www.theverge.com
It’s trying to be a better messaging app — but also lots of other things.
    • Lumun@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      Yeah I agree - the Activity tab and the DMs look like they are exact copies of the Teams interface. I mean, it’s an intuitive way to display info but I don’t see much design innovation with this announcement

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      82·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, taking some of the good stuff from teams, I prefer slack overall but teams does have some interesting ideas

      • grabyourmotherskeysEnglish
        17·
        2 years ago

        Like periodically not recognizing why audio device on my computer. Or just not sending notifications sometimes. Or not recognizing @ autocompletes. Stuff like that. :)

        Sorry, it’s been a long day.

        • HerrLewakaas@feddit.deEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Or not showing the correct status for your colleagues. Or having back and forwards buttons that don’t work within an app

          • grabyourmotherskeysEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Yes, stuff like that.

            As an old man I rely heavily on the read state to know if I have addressed a colleagues message. When this breaks I’m pretty much lost at sea. I have methods of tracking requests outside of Teams but really miss Slack’s remind me feature. I’ve cobbled together one or two integrations with Teams and flow apps but they always lose authentication or something else breaks. Maddening.

  • narnach@feddit.nlEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    The screenshots look like it now takes more clicks to get to groups/conversations than before. That appears like it will make me less productive instead of more.

    I hope I’m wrong about this.

    • doctortofu@reddthat.comEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      Same - right now I have a list of DMs that shows full names and is immediately accessible - to me that’s significantly easier to look through than a mockup of a phone interface…

      I’m using Slack on desktop and for work - not a fun of makig it look like I’m texting my buddies from my phone.

  • BappityEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    NO WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO US IT LOOKS LIKE TEAMS NOW

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    112·
    2 years ago

    I have my doubts. Making Slack less distracting would be directly antithetical to Slack’s monetary interests. Long term, I’d love to be proven wrong, but I have my suspicions that where this is going is slack wants to gain more users, and then slowly ratchet the noise back up

  • thisisdeeEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    As long as cmd + k still allows me to find DMs and/channels I think it’s not too bad. I feel like I prefer the current design mostly because I don’t need a quick glance of the latest message, just that I have unread message, but I won’t know until I try

  • bisqEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’m a big fan from what is visible in that article.

  • scarabicEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I don’t know if this will be any better but I know I can never find shit in Slack.

  • underthesignEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I just wish there was a way to get it to handle processing of folder and file paths to your environment. They say it’s a security thing which I get, but my team is constantly sharing links to files and folders and it’s a PITA having to copy and paste the links into Explorer. If there was some way of making it work securely it would be a big productivity boost a d QOL improvement.

    • Eager EagleOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I don’t get it. How are file paths supposed to work across different machines?

      • _MantissaEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        Network mapped volumes, I assume