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Re:Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans by xnorswap on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:03AM (#50352119)
> despise what Slack has become

I'm genuinely struggling to understand how slack is much different now than 5 or more years ago. There's a handful of features that are easy to ignore, but the fundamental experience has barely changed in a decade.

What is it about slack that you despise?

Re:Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans by sgarland on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:17AM (#50352297)
Same. It’s perhaps a little more bloated, but it’s nothing like what Discord has become, as a counter.
Re:Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans by drcongo on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:53AM (#50352753)
Oh, there could be a massive list here, but as tiny exemplar - try zooming in to see something in the corner of an image shared while you're on a video call. You could, before they invented "Huddles", an even shittier version of the video calls feature it had before, but now you can't.

I guess you also haven't been hit yet by the "every message is a new message even if I'm the one that just sent it and it's right there on screen in the channel I still have open because I sent it" bug yet. When you do, I'm afraid the only fix is to individually sign out of every Slack you're in, delete the app, delete every file it's ever created in ~/Library/, reinstall the app, re-sign-in to every Slack again.