totally agree about the lack of customization.
A portion of the difficulty is owing to them using a web app in a SSB (single site browser) instead of a properly native desktop app.
I would love to be able to tile different channel/message windows, like we all did with IRC clients. Unfortunately this is fundamentally intractable in an SSB-architected app (including Electron, node-webkit, et al.).
Agreed. I wrote a blog post outlining a way to get around this. (https://medium.com/building-things-people-want/slack-is-too-...) The gist: turn off all notifications then flip them back on by channel. Still doesn't address de-coupling of pop-ups and sound, though.
Re:Slack Platform Launch
by tobrepeels on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @05:14PM
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Re:Slack Platform Launch
by BinaryIdiot on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:30AM
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Yeah after we started hooking it up now I get all these notifications for builds, etc. I don't need any of this notifying me but I need notifications for other types of messages.
Right now I'm not seeing a difference between this and HipChat but everyone seems to love it so I'll use it I'm just kinda indifferent and unimpressed with it thus far.
you can do quite a lot of customisation if you split out automation messages into channels - each channel has per-user-device notification preferences
If you use OS X, go into System Preferences -> Notifications -> Slack and set slack alert style to "None".
There, you now have sound and no banner-style alerts. You can customise a lot more and all apps that are able to do notifications go through there.
Maybe you can't customize notifications extensively in Slack itself (I found them okay, yet slightly lacking), but if you're on a Mac, you can definitely comfigure Desktop notifications per App, which I also did.
Slack's notifications lack customization which makes them annoying. Either you get the whole package, intrusive desktop pop up and all, or you get no notification. Where's the option to have sounds but no pop ups? Where's the option to lump notifications so you don't get spammed?