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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by acdha on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:51AM (#21593539)
Because they’re not idiots but rather people with different priorities and backgrounds who were underserved previously. You might disagree that this is helpful but it’s unlikely that you know more about Slack’s users than their UX team. Treating everyone involved with respect is a much better strategy than what you’re doing.
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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by cmiles74 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:03AM (#21594064)
I suspect Slack is aiming for the customers they would like to have in the future at the expense of the customers they actually have right now.
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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:21AM (#21594225)
Then provide an option. There's no need to cripple some of your users for the sake of others.
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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by jasonzemos on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:28AM (#21594290)
Why does that justify conforming the user to the software? Software, especially web software, has this magical quality of doing different things for different people even at the same time.
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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by AlexandrB on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:05PM (#21596355)
> Treating everyone involved with respect is a much better strategy than what you’re doing.

They're not treating the users who prefer markdown formatting with respect at all. It's basically: "fuck those guys, we want to cater to a different audience".

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