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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by geoffreyhale on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @05:25PM (#21697515)
Source?
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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by sm4rk0 on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @05:34PM (#21697576)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592828
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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by munk-a on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:35PM (#21698842)
Well, I'm quite happy they had to shamefully walk that statement back - seems like it might have been a feature pushed arbitrarily by a C-level fiat rather than user research.

Having the WYSIWYG thing as an option is nice - forcing everyone into it less so.

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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by ajkjk on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @05:27PM (#21697524)
Sounds very similar to the infuriating twitter replies when this feature came out.
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