Seems like Slack is focusing a lot on making the app more accessible for enterprises with email-like message composer or "no-fancy-shortcuts" navigation. While some of these improvements are nice, I feel like Slack has been going downhill ux-wise for some time now:
- new input box, obviously, which messes up the message even when turned off (edited message with code block will often be different than what I just sent)
- people with message drafts moving on the list, as many people mentioned here already
- often an action I did by mistake can't be undone by pressing escape: drafting a post, opening image. I can't reproduce this always so it seems like a bug
- I now sometimes can't see person's details by clicking their image for some reason? I need to click their name, but even that not always works. Also not reproducible 100% of the time, so looks like a bug
- notifications on Android are broken: they don't disappear when I read a message elsewhere, sometimes I get mobile notifications _for a conversation I'm having on the desktop_.
- when I write someone with notifications off/snoozed, I'm immediately pinged about this. And every single time I'm thinking that person maybe is online and replied, but it's always Slack pinging me, with notification and all, that it's actually the opposite
- I often see people working while appearing offline, myself included, because apparently Slack decided to stop asking if I want to go online after I decline it once or twice (the night before)
Basically Slack is less and less friendly. I used to advocate for it as it was a huge step up from HipChat that we used, but if it was up to me now, I'd be looking for alternatives.
- new input box, obviously, which messes up the message even when turned off (edited message with code block will often be different than what I just sent)
- people with message drafts moving on the list, as many people mentioned here already
- often an action I did by mistake can't be undone by pressing escape: drafting a post, opening image. I can't reproduce this always so it seems like a bug
- I now sometimes can't see person's details by clicking their image for some reason? I need to click their name, but even that not always works. Also not reproducible 100% of the time, so looks like a bug
- notifications on Android are broken: they don't disappear when I read a message elsewhere, sometimes I get mobile notifications _for a conversation I'm having on the desktop_.
- when I write someone with notifications off/snoozed, I'm immediately pinged about this. And every single time I'm thinking that person maybe is online and replied, but it's always Slack pinging me, with notification and all, that it's actually the opposite
- I often see people working while appearing offline, myself included, because apparently Slack decided to stop asking if I want to go online after I decline it once or twice (the night before)
Basically Slack is less and less friendly. I used to advocate for it as it was a huge step up from HipChat that we used, but if it was up to me now, I'd be looking for alternatives.