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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by tiborsaas on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:35AM (#21593146)
We are different. For me it's exactly the "oh you changed it, never mind, I'll use it a bit differently from now on" situation.
Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by TotempaaltJ on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:02AM (#21593275)
Same here. I've already mostly adapted to the new editor. There's some annoyances, but I love not having to send to myself just to see what the message will look like and how Slack's version of Markdown will interpret my formatting.
Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by dd82 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:17AM (#21593356)
I wouldn't have a problem with this _if_ this were configurable. Its not. This is two pretty good UI/UX screwups in a row by Slack (this, and threads)

Slack's good at engineering and development. They used to be good at UI/UX, but whoever over there in the text entry product design slot is having a case of the Jony Ives.

Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by wingerlang on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:43AM (#21593501)
I bet the majority (like 95%+++) of users are like that. I'm technical and while I've only used it for 1 day so far I still sent multiple code blocks and used formatting as usual. Maybe I'll run into problems but so far it's very much a whatever situation IMO.
Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by nemo44x on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:34AM (#21593784)
A “preview” button would have facilitated this. Or even better, let users edit in the preview input if they want or the regular editor, switching back and forth as desired.
Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:12AM (#21594817)
Funny enough, I kind of like it better - the way that the enter key changed in and out of a ``` block would always screw me up and I'd end up sending messages before I wanted to, and then instead of bugging someone for 1 message I have to send 3 with the middle being "sorry, hit enter too soon".
Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by csharp on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:51AM (#21595340)
There was already a setting for this with markdown:

>When typing code with ```, Enter should not send the message.

>With this checked use ShiftEnter to send.

So they didn't really provide anything new here, just changed the default behavior.

edit: formatting

Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:23AM (#21595775)
Had no idea. Thanks!