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Just for anyone who'd like some confirmation of this. Their official Twitter account it's also saying the same[1]

I'm glad they listened to the feedback but their attitude towards people who wrote in with bugs/criticism should also be learned from. Being told 'We know what's best for you, we're not reverting the changes' was pretty insulting.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/119764013617293721...




And in more than one place, viz., https://mobile.twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/119764819999085772...

And something that occurred to me: if it's true that "in the future everyone will code (to some degree)," don't you think it's OK to start the baby steps of textual thinking?

C'mon, it's markup with like six modes, people. Practice for half as long as you're on <time_wasting_social_app> in one day and you'll be fluent.


> Practice for half as long as you're on <time_wasting_social_app> in one day and you'll be fluent.

To be fair, you could learn almost anything in that amount of time;)


It's extremely insulting and this is why I think Slack is hostile towards its users.




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