Credit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37505747 In my case I used it for forcing Clojurians to show the new one. I'm also on other Slacks and I prefered to accept the new course of things asap, even if I'd rather have Aubergine Classic forever 🥲

Thank you!!!

So... slack transformed into discord...? 😄 Also how do I reclaim already small screen estate that they used up by one more additional sidebar...?

Slack: We're redesigning some stuff! Me: Amazing! Now we can have better threads, and reply to messages, right? Slack: New UI with the same features! Me: Wait... NO!

The red dots that won't go away until you click them are absolutely obnoxious I'll revert 🙃

Redesigns are just so sad, in a sane world the backend API would simply never have breaking changes and you'd be free to use an official JS client from a fixed point in time Same for gmail, etc

Yeah, Google is horrible for me on this aspect - it always change things without reason, usually for worse, and the "new thing" is usually so buggy I mean - Android is the perfect example. They made the "accessibility icon" take place on the UI just after the "task switcher" button. The problem is that they put the "change keyboard" at the same position, and the "accessibility" overrides it, so if you have accessibility turned on, you can't change keyboards. Literally can't - they removed the notification icon to change keyboards on their redesign...

Try this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507

Also you may try this:

.p-client_workspace {
  margin-left: -60px;
}
.p-tab_rail {
  display: none;
}

Is there a way to force the desktop app to switch to the new layout? I am in four active Slacks and three of them are on the new UI and this one alone is still on the old UI! I haven't checked the dozen or so that I'm not currently active in...

(the hack above worked to change the web UI -- although I had to quit desktop before it would "stick" -- but that localStorage change doesn't seem to affect the desktop app)

> The first thing you need to know about Marl is that he has the attention span of a goldfish on acid From the post - wow, it's incredibly funny and weirdly accurate...

> nothing else took its place so far... Is Mastodon not suitable? Quite a few people seem to also exist there, at least from this community. I don't use such kind of social networks so can't really tell myself.

yeah, i feel the same way. it's been a real loss personally.

@U2FRKM4TW not really. The thing about Twitter is that everybody was there - including governmental institutions, e-market, brands of everything we could imagine, etc. It's also not that easy to search for things and to find stuff to follow, because everybody is on its own instance and while these instances do communicate, it's not really transparent

Agreed. For a lot of personal reasons, but I also made the mistake of baking it into how my business worked. I've moved to Mastodon and I'm slowly rebuilding there, but choosing to leave Twitter hit my bottom line pretty hard. It was just easier to reach previously unreached audiences there.

I still have my Twitter account (well, my new one with the same username as my old one -- which I deleted in November '21 along with my Facebook account). I'm also on Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads 🙂

I feel the same way - it’s just like Google Reader shutting down: in theory RSS is still around, but in practice I stopped reading and following as many sources of information, and a lot of those sources ended up moving to other platforms or just shutting down.

From a convenience and low friction perspective, I never moved on from Google Reader to alternatives; and I’m noticing a similar pattern of not really moving on to a Twitter alternative.

For me, the problem with Twitter is that it didn't simply died - it's like seeing Obi-Wan dying (sad) versus seeing a jedi turning to the dark side (horrible - they're still alive, but you can't interact in any way anymore)

In the last days before I left I saw so many swastikas that I felt I was transported to an alternate reality (well, sometimes I still think I did)...

I feel the same way. Mastodon fills the void to an extent but it’s not as big or searchable as Twitter. I do feel like I’ve lost something, like when I stopped using Facebook. These services are useful but come with too many compromises to make it worth it. Over time they seem to get worse and you’re more locked in. I was using Twitter without an account for a while but they’ve locked that down now. I have no intention of becoming a Musk subject. There’s a clear lurch to the far right there and it worries me.