Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support

Re:Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support by Nextgrid on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:53AM (#20837405)

I hate the new “Drafts” feature with the passion of a thousand suns.

I select my recipient in the sidebar towards the bottom, start typing, then quickly switch to another channel to check something out, then want to switch to the recipient again to finish typing my message... it’s no longer there. I waste 10 seconds before I realise the recipient is now in the “drafts” category all the way at the top.

Which moron thought this was a good idea? I can’t think of any use case where this “feature” is actually beneficial.

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Re:Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support by ivanbozic on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:36AM (#20837594)

I don't have the same vehement hate you do, haha, but I can agree that the UX here is bad. On desktop, I usually switch between users and channels using the Quick Switcher (⌘+K) so don't really have to dig through the sidebar, but I have noticed it on my tablet and it annoys the hell out of me.

One simple tweak to that would be to have that specific user at the top in the Drafts section, but also leave the user in the Direct Messages area as well.

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Re:Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support by jmsaucier on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:40AM (#20837605)

If you're on desktop, you can use the keyboard shortcuts to quickly swap between conversations. I don't like the drafts section either, but that has been my only way of coping with it.

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