Show HN: SlackRevert, a Firefox extension to revert Slack's new design

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/slackrevert/

by apimade • 3 years ago

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Don't you risk a permaban from all of Slack by using this? https://slack.com/acceptable-use-policy says:

Do Not:
attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, hack, disable, interfere with, disassemble, modify, copy, translate, or disrupt the features, functionality, integrity, or performance of the Services (including any mechanism used to restrict or control the functionality of the Services), any third party use of the Services, or any third party data contained therein (except to the extent such restrictions are prohibited by applicable law);

2Gkashmiri• 3 years ago

Everyone says that, every website has tos against scraping but search engine scraping for seo is welcomed and encouraged against their own policy so who cares. This Firefox addon does the change client side so how does that affect the org?

smcleod2• 3 years ago

It's not a service you're config changes to - it's the local client software on your machine.

Even if it was the service - you're not reverse engineering, decompiling, hacking, disabling disassembling or even really modifying it.

AdamJacobMuller• 3 years ago

What's so objectionable about the new UI?

dagmx4• 3 years ago

It’s incredibly awful if you have to be in multiple workspaces.

previously all workspaces appeared in a single column so you could see at a glance which workspaces had updates and could prioritize work accordingly. This allows for passively staying up to date.

Now all workspaces are collapsed under a single icon. So you see a single “update” but can’t see which workspace without interacting with the app. Now looking for updates is an active process.

This doesn’t even save space since the sidebar is still always there, and now there’s just more white space.

I’m in ~10 workspaces for vendors and developer communities that I need to be involved in as part of my job. This has absolutely tanked any sense of productivity. I can no longer see what’s happening at a glance.

Additionally they’ve made it so replies in threads are the same notification badge level as a DM. Previously it was white, now it’s red. So not only did they make it hard to see what workspace has a DM, I can’t actually tell if something is a DM or not.

barkerja• 3 years ago

I don't have the new design yet in any of my servers, but this sounds nearly identical to the iPad layout, which I've grown accustom to and don't mind.

BrandonSmith2• 3 years ago

Slack seems to be walking back their mistake 10 years ago of requiring independent logins for each workspace.

In slacks new product vision, you don’t sign into multiple workspaces, you sign into your “home” workspace and get invited via Slack Connect to other workspaces.

This seems to be reinforced by collapsing the workspace picker and making unreads in other workspaces less obvious.

smcleod2• 3 years ago

What on earth were Slack thinking when they rolled out this new UI - it is an absolute disaster! They took something that was OK and made it terrible.

The worst thing from a functional point of view was hiding all your workspaces behind the logo of which ever workspace you happened to be in last but the UI as a whole looks like windows vista or something - fischer price my first GUI.

Oh my god I'm so glad I found the console localstorage setting to revert it back.

   export SLACK_DEVELOPER_MENU=true
   open /Applications/Slack.app

CMD+Option+I to open dev tools and in the console run:

   localStorage.setItem("localConfig_v2", localStorage.getItem("localConfig_v2").replace(/\"is_unified_user_client_enabled\":true/g, '\"is_unified_user_client_enabled\":false'))

Then CMD+Shift+R to reload.

gabrielsroka• 3 years ago

   localStorage.setItem('localConfig_v2', localStorage.getItem('localConfig_v2').replace(/"is_unified_user_client_enabled":true/g, '"is_unified_user_client_enabled":false'))

Show HN: SlackRevert, a Firefox extension to revert Slack's new design

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