https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23824562/slack-redesign-app-dms-activity-later?
It’s trying to be a better messaging app — but also lots of other things.
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
Yeah, taking some of the good stuff from teams, I prefer slack overall but teams does have some interesting ideas
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.
Or not showing the correct status for your colleagues. Or having back and forwards buttons that don't work within an app
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
