Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by jsjohnst on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:41AM (#21593182)

I’ve already put my money where my mouth is and sent an email saying I intend to cancel all future payments to Slack unless they give the option to disable it, I suggest everyone else does the same.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by nmec on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:49AM (#21593921)

I expressed my discontent to them as well and just received this reply:

"I'm afraid there is no way to disable this at the moment, and it's not in the roadmap to roll back on this feature. That said, we're still in the initial stages here, so our focus right now is listening to feedback as we consider certain changes for improvement as we move forward. You've raised some fair points here, so I've shared your feedback with my team for consideration in the future."

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by asix66 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:13AM (#21595670)

So their rollout methodology here was to go live with beta software, on production servers, to paying customers, and force them to find the bugs. Brilliant!

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by MattSayar on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:57AM (#21596228)

Sadly, that just sounds like "software development" these days.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by taormina on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:07PM (#21598917)

They deployed it as an A/B test[0]. Which means they are blatantly lying about being able to roll it back.

[0] https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet/b...

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by carapace on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:41PM (#21596928)

It worked for Etsy.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by imglorp on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:01AM (#21594041)

I mailed them too, and got a human response instantly. They're good at that.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by geodel on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:21AM (#21594221)

Yea, having about ~2K employees for chat app company also helps in getting human response

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by pif on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:41AM (#21595999)

> and it's not in the roadmap to roll back on this feature

How can anyone remain a customer of such idiots?

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by jcsiracusa on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:24PM (#21596664)

Click the “Aa” icon in the WYSIWYG text input area toolbar to go back to the old non-WYSIWYG text input field.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by Kalium on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:28PM (#21596718)

I'm sorry to say, but this is incorrect. Clicking that button hides the strip of formatting buttons, but does not return to the old text input behavior.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by jsjohnst on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:46PM (#21597778)

EXACTLY! If hiding it restored the old behavior, almost nobody would be complaining.

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