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I just had to use Slack again after 6 years, and it's incredible how much worse its gotten. Honestly I don't know how they managed to make an industry leading tool actively worse by so much that its now _worse_ than Teams.

Features it had 6 years ago that I desperately missed when we had to start using Teams are pretty much all gone now. Its such a slap in the face of how Enshittified it's become.



I'm not really sure what you mean, I'm also coming back to using Slack for some contracting work after a similar period of time and it seems identical to how it always was to me, definitely feels nicer to me than Teams.

Could you point out what has changed? I guess calls are called "huddles" now for some reason, that's a bit weird but doesn't really bother me.


Ine big thing for me is the removal of the reactions & mentions sidebar.

I now have to constantly manually check in a special tab to see if someone ACKed my message.


That's moved to activity -> mentions, I think.


You used to be able to remote control during desktop sharing.


Yet it's better than every single alternative. Teams is a flaming pile of UX poo. Just like the rest of Microsoft products except Excel and _maybe_ Outlook.


> except Excel and _maybe_ Outlook.

They're fixing that by replacing Outlook with "New Outlook" which is a terrible half-clone of its predecessor.


Been using it for over 10 years and I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I suppose I didn't use the features you're mentioning.

For me, it's basically exactly the same except the sidebar is now wider because of the multi-slack thing, and the home/DMs/activity nonsense bar, which I could do without.

Otherwise it's just channels with messages in them. Which has improved since I started using it, when there were no threads or reactjis.




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