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[–] Tamilas@reddthat.com 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Kinda just looks like Teams...

[–] Lumun@lemmy.zip 14 points 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.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Lmao! Teams does suck 😆

[–] HerrLewakaas@feddit.de 4 points 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

[–] narnach@feddit.nl 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.com 13 points 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.

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago

I just desperately want an opt-out of the auto-mute when being alone in a huddle

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 9 points 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

[–] alansuspect@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So what's the alternative if this is no good? Is there a FOSS Slack?

[–] Jeeva@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

I've used Ripcord before, and it was a bit janky but hellishly fast and light weight.

[–] thisisdee@lemmy.world 5 points 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

[–] bisq@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] underthesign@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] _Mantissa@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Network mapped volumes, I assume

[–] Solgrund@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still prefer discord but good move on thier part.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Well I dont think your corpo daddy will accept China data access on discord