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.
  • narnach@feddit.nlEnglish
    30·
    1 year 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
      12·
      1 year 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.

    • Lumun@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      1 year 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
      5·
      1 year ago

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

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    1 year 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

  • thisisdee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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

  • underthesign@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year 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.