Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ...
by leadingthenet on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:58AM
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> I wonder if they’re deliberately insulting my intelligence.
They are, but in cases like these you should always ask yourself if you're the target market. Frankly, if you're not the one deciding whether to adopt Slack at your workplace, you're probably not...
Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ...
by umanwizard on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:04AM
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I work at a very small company with eminently reasonable management. If the engineers didn't want to use Slack, we wouldn't use it.
Sadly, you're probably right that most people aren't in that boat...
Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ...
by leadingthenet on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:24AM
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Exactly. At my current place, management would laugh in my face for even thinking of such a thing. And this is a small company, mind you.
Yes, I do want to leave asap.
I’ve noticed this in the past, when a previous employer got rid of their Markdown interface for interview candidate feedback. In response to everyone’s angry comments about their flaky piece of garbage WYSIWYG replacement, they responded “please file bugs if our Markdown-like shortcuts aren’t working right!”
They were completely missing the point since even if their tool was 100% bug free (which it wasn’t, and I’m sure still isn’t), WYSIWYG editing will NEVER feel like text editing, and I NEVER want it in a critical work tool.
Honestly people thinking their WYSIWYG editor “supports markdown” because “Star Star” is an alternate shortcut for Ctrl+B seems to be so severely missing the mark that I wonder if they’re deliberately insulting my intelligence.