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Also, how to prioritize those early morning calls with Singapore.
7 years using Slack, and this is by far the most disappointing iPad app “upgrade.” Repackage the desktop app for the iPad and call it “Slack Pro” for iPad Pro users who use their iPad in place of a laptop.We dream of video conferencing in Zoom, ask whatever happened to Big Data, discuss how little agile practices are followed despite their proven success, and contemplate the meaninglessness of Apple moving to ARM. The only way to return some of the missing sort and see all DMs on the iPad app is to select the sort option of “by recent” but it does not group unreads. The iPhone app now also suffers from this Direct Message unread messages “Show All” problem. Unfortunate for the iPad app, Slack has taken a once very useful version (preferred as a second screen in some cases over the desktop app) and made it into a giant iPhone app. Also, Direct message addresses are much harder to read too much text all clumped together. Also frustrating are the 3 or so “Unread Direct Messages” you can see, when you tap “Show All” it takes you to the “Direct Messages” sidebar that sorts in its own way, with unreads strewn about. Seems like the “Dark Mode” folks won the design argument as the new app no longer supports the desktop or web app color themes which now makes the iPad app incredibly difficult to know at a glance which team you’re viewing. Now, the iPad app has been turned to be quite bland. No longer easy to see all unread messages in one place - which was a feature I regularly requested for the desktop app. In some ways, it is almost as if Slack doesn’t understand its users.
The recent iPad App update misses the mark quite considerably. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for iPad This can lead to me not noticing a message for days Lastly, if I get a message while snoozed I am not told about it once the snooze ends.
It would be much less distracting / annoying to group the messages and notify on configurable intervals If a conversation is happening I want to know about it, but I also don’t want my phone to completely blow up with 50 notifications beeping at me in 10 minutes. There is no granularity on getting alerts for channels besides give me everything all the time, and give me nothing. Why would I want the same snooze settings? There are no different snooze settings for different days of the week. Big failing for me compared to something like FB messenger which will know to clear them. I have to go dismiss them all one at a time even though the app should know I’ve read them. Messages you read on web or on the app don’t dismiss notifications. I work at a company with thousands of employees, so if I search for someone with a common first name and I don’t know their last name, I have to go through a list of 30 people when I’ve talked to them before and I’d expect them to just come up first. Searching for users when trying to start a DM doesn’t prioritize users you’ve talked to before. Putting a lot of detail in hopes it is read by developers as I do want to love the app.
Some things are big misses for me though, especially notifications. Scientifically proven (or at least rumored) to make your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.
Customize your notifications so you stay focused on what matters.