Slack's desktop app is a shitheap
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@greybeard said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
We have Slack blocked at the firewall to prevent employees from leaking company information to unapproved external services. Iām on a special whitelist so I can communicate with a particular external organization that uses it.
TIL that a hidden, obfuscated firewall exception one hacked into place to steal company secrets is called a "whitelist".
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@bb36e said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
@dragnslcr maybe it's a generation thing, but writing an email to say 'hey we moved the meeting to 10F because the room was full' just seems strange. Iunno.
You aren't supposed to write an email to do it. You should be editing the calendar invite so it's properly documented (and to reserve the other room), and let Exchange write the email for you. :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
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@zmaster It's not a limitation of the Windows 8/10 notification API. It's a limitation of the Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 bubble API, and even then it actually isn't but most programmers believe that it is.
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@lorne-kates A whitelist is a specific set of allowed exceptions to a rule. So yes.
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@alexmedia said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
Teams
That's our current solution du jour. Which of course necessitates moving all our documentation over from Confluence.The Teams wiki interface is really annoying to use.
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@scarlet_manuka said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
The Teams
wikiinterface is really annoying to use.I don't know how it's going on your end, but the Teams interface was way too jittery (shit constantly reflowing and moving around) and laggy (parts of the screen would stay blank for way too long) for me.
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@bb36e Well, fortunately we don't really use any other parts of Teams all that much. Just like we didn't use Skype all that much, or Slack before it. (To be fair, we do seem to be using Teams chats a bit more than we used the previous equivalents, but I can still get through most days without it.) But we do have to get our documentation moved across. :(
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@el-dorko said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
@alexmedia I so agree with you on that. How can anyone release something as slow as Teams, with a straight face? I don't even know how that is possible, apart from adding tons of sleeps in there on purpose...
TIL we'll be migrating in a few months.
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@lolwhat huh? We aren't a socialist country anymore. Nowadays we embraced the capitalism, and as a result of that, and the inept government we're being fucked hard
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@jarry said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
inept government
we're being fucked hard
Ooooh! Snap!
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So after reading this, I have little confidence that Slack's mobile app will be any better. But when I try to open Slack in my Android browser, it tries to redirect me to an app.
No. I don't want an app. I want the browser version.
Does anyone know how to make the browser version show up in a mobile browser?
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@masonwheeler I haven't found the app to be too bad on my Android...
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@masonwheeler said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
Does anyone know how to make the browser version show up in a mobile browser?
Hide your user agent, or request the desktop version of the page.
They probably only redirect mobile browsers
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@timebandit said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
Hide your user agent,
How do I do that in Chrome for Android?
or request the desktop version of the page.
How do I do that? I don't see anything in the URL that looks like it's requesting a mobile page.
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@masonwheeler said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
How do I do that? I don't see anything in the URL that looks like it's requesting a mobile page.
Hamburger menu -> Desktop site
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@timebandit Thanks, that worked! TIL :D
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@dangeruss said in Slack's desktop app is a shitheap:
it doesn't seem to have sensible defaults re: notifications
The biggest problem is that you cannot mute a channel but still receive alerts for direct mentions. There are dozens of channels I only joined because I'm occasionally summoned there anyway. I don't want to have their names boldened on the sidebar if there are new messages, I just want to silently lurk them until I'm actually needed.
There's no setting for this. You're either never sent a notification or you will see the channel alert you that there are new messages via the sidebar in the Desktop app. It's annoying because it causes me to spend way too much time marking messages I don't care about as read. Visual alerts inside the app that you cannot get rid of feel almost as bad as unnecessary notifications to me.
