You know, I can't stand re-designs, and I was agreeing with a lot of the comments here until I got off my phone and was able to click through to the article and to Twitter on my laptop.
The responses are kind of repetitive/grating in that they're non-replies and kind of stonewalling, but I couldn't help but picture some poor soul fighting against the gratuitous negativity. Some (Most?) people were being constructively negative, which I do appreciate, but the Slack employee on Twitter essentially can't give anyone any closure or solution, and is just generally powerless against the whims of the designers or whoever it was that pushed for this change.
I like all my tools just so and have gotten used to them over many years, so I definitely agree with a lot of the sentiment here. It's just that for some reason the human sitting on the other side of the Twitter account was 'visible' to me in this instance.
EDIT: just to say that for the above reason, comments like this one:
make me a little sad. It's one thing to rail on a company, but in the case of Twitter, it's another person. Maybe a team of people; I'm not sure, but I'd say the same in that case too.
The responses are kind of repetitive/grating in that they're non-replies and kind of stonewalling, but I couldn't help but picture some poor soul fighting against the gratuitous negativity. Some (Most?) people were being constructively negative, which I do appreciate, but the Slack employee on Twitter essentially can't give anyone any closure or solution, and is just generally powerless against the whims of the designers or whoever it was that pushed for this change.
I like all my tools just so and have gotten used to them over many years, so I definitely agree with a lot of the sentiment here. It's just that for some reason the human sitting on the other side of the Twitter account was 'visible' to me in this instance.
EDIT: just to say that for the above reason, comments like this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21590681
make me a little sad. It's one thing to rail on a company, but in the case of Twitter, it's another person. Maybe a team of people; I'm not sure, but I'd say the same in that case too.