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Yeah, as soon as it auto-refreshed to the new design, I immediately hit the "Give feedback on the new design" link and expressed my displeasure to the void.
There is nothing I like about the redesign. Nothing. Everything about it makes the experience worse, and it looks like they threw widgets in a bag, shook it up, tossed it on a canvas, and they landed where they landed.
Super over it already. I have grumbled about app changes in the past, but usually they’re neutral or only slightly irritating. Everything has just been flipped around for no reason. Why is the setting/profile now on the bottom left instead of the top right? Why is the search bar so massive and close to the edges? What’s with this awful new color scheme? What’s with the feed-style layout in mobile when you select “activities”?
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.
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.
Use Microsoft Teams for a while and you'll appreciate how good you had it with Slack!
The redesign is literally pointless and currently achieves nothing. I find that the user's profile button having moved to the bottom-left so goddamned weird, as is the "Activity" button moving to the no-mans-land of middle of the sidebar.
Is it just me or is search on mobile worse too? I find the message I want is often the second or third result now when sorting by "relevant." Switching back to newest helps.
I'm not put out by an extra step. It's that, as OP correctly says, I can't think of an update to a productivity that gave me anything I wanted. Instead updates seem to tell me I've been using the app wrong this whole time.
Instead updates seem to tell me I’ve been using the app wrong this whole time.
Nailed it that’s exactly what it feels like