Clojurians Log v2

What do you mean?

They've been "improving" Slack UI for the past few years without any fundamental changes. I'd say it's like with phones or desktop UIs nowadays - we're at a (local?) maximum and all that's left to do, without paradigm shifts, is to dance around it.

haha, yeah... if that is creativity at slack then better use claude maybe haha

If only there was a way to explore the path to different local maxima without pushing to production!

Maybe they did, and the result was "yes, that goofy pop-up is exactly what we need". :)

One of the reasons I barely use Discord anymore, even though I used to chat there all the time. Pop-ups everywhere. All the time. Mostly about "buy our subscription". Possible to block in the browser version, but it takes too much time and then change them all the time.

I recently learned Discord also has threads like Slack, but I don't think I've ever seen them used.

I've seen them being used, it's quite nice. Depends on the server.

@kiraemclean has a nice tui for slack here: https://github.com/kirahowe/slk, if you want to explore a more console-based approach 🙂

yeah that's intrusive. esp since it's bold too until you click it. are they planning on keeping "halloween themes" indefinitely? that's pretty awkward

The fine print on the dialog says it will end on November 1.

was too fine of a print to read leaning back in my chair 😛

I've been thinking that my theme isn't spooky enough, and it's interrupting my work too, because being frightened has always heightened my focus and I have been far too relaxed at my computer. A couple spiders should really help me improve my concentration and workflow I think.

You're in luck! https://ogaken3.itch.io/desktopspider

Thanks for sharing. Yeah I have to use slack for work but found the desktop app was taking up to 2GB of RAM at times 😵‍💫 I found that library and forked it to fix some bugs and add the features I needed to be able to use as my main day to day ui (like unread flags, highlights when you're tagged, and canvas viewing)

There's a few things I think could improve in slack. Ability to move a thread from one channel to another for example? Threads within threads would be nice. (With the ability to move the inner thread out to be a top level thread in the channel). The huddle thing could have improved UX as well. Etc.

But it's so much easier to vibe code a small Halloween party trick, so that's my guess for why that's here

O no, they brought back the touch bar and this time it's the entire screen 😱