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It says something about the current relationship of large corporate apps and users when Slack makes an update - of particular annoyance is that the search bar at the top basically eats the entire bord (kbin.social)
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It says something about the current relationship of large corporate apps and users when Slack makes an update - of particular annoyance is that the search bar at the top basically eats the entire border now making it impossible to move the window around unless you make the window sufficiently large - and my immediate thought is “this must have been deliberate in order to make sure Slack takes up as much of my screen as possible.”

It’s hard for me to think of a legitimate reason for how massive that search bar is and why it is so damn close to all the edges at the top making the window virtually immovable unless you greatly expand it.

It’s just malicious design as usual.

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[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imo slack is just a garbage product to start with. The chat grouping is not intuitive, the notification audio alerts are subtle and easy to miss with no way of changing the tone, and a large chunk of the time I don't receive any notification of any new messages, and the new message won't appear in chat unless I close and reopen the chat.

And I'm definitely not the only one at my job with these issues.

[–] TQuid@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Little tip, since it’s an Electron app, you can reload the view with ctrl-R (cmd-R) on Mac. Saves you a trip to re-open, usually.

[–] bug@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Use Microsoft Teams for a while and you'll appreciate how good you had it with Slack!