I have tried slack for some months and found it super laggy, both on the desktop and on android.<p>Then someone invited me to try Discord for company comms and I said "that's a gaming-oriented app, cmon it won't work well".... my mind was blown by how smooth Discord is.<p>We are a small shop but since we migrated from Slack to Discord we haven't been focusing much on 'how to communicate' but more on actually just chatting.<p>I advise everyone that talks about Slack to try Discord as a good alternative, even if your use case is synchronizing a loosely-knit team over the internet.
> <i>If you write [here's a link](<a href="https://gmc.uy" rel="nofollow">https://gmc.uy</a>), it shows it as a link :)<p>> The nice part? it shows it as a link for everybody, not only those who have the extension installed.</i><p>Wait, wat? I'm looking at the code[0], and this is the most surprising part of this entire project to me. Slack goes out of its way to say "we don't support Markdown because we think the link support is an exploit." But they just have an alternate, undocumented way to send links anyway?<p>Is that a bug on Slack's side? I'm trying the syntax format that you're casting to in DMs to myself, and it doesn't seem to work? Are they doing clientside escaping or something?<p>Don't get me wrong, I think the "people might phish links" excuse is kind of lame when there are multiple ways for them to mitigate that problem, I'm just very curious about how and why this works.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/g3rv4/BetterSlack/commit/24ad3b57da7a9c9c6455a038b96a2ac44a71ac73" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/g3rv4/BetterSlack/commit/24ad3b57da7a9c9c...</a>
Hey this is neat! Re: injecting into Slack.app, you're right, it's a pain. I had a simple approach here: <a href="https://zachsnow.github.io/slinger/" rel="nofollow">https://zachsnow.github.io/slinger/</a> but it needs to be updated for every version (which of course I didn't do).<p>It would be cool if you made it so that users could inject it manually (via enabling --dev and $.getScript() or so) into the app; I for one don't restart Slack very often, so it wouldn't be too much of a pain.
One of the problem I always have on Slack or other chats is the 300+ unread messages after being offline for a day or two. I tend to skip everything but sometimes I miss things I should read...<p>A solution?
I like having reacji to the right of the message instead of below. Slack should steal that idea. Screenshot here: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/mDYtOy2.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/mDYtOy2.png</a>
Is there a way to view and interact with multiple conversations at the same time? I want pop-up tabs or pop-out windows or something.<p>Slack always seems like a step backwards in chat to me.