Kinda just looks like Teams...

The screenshots look like it now takes more clicks to get to groups/conversations than before. That appears like it will make me less productive instead of more.

I hope I’m wrong about this.

NO WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO US IT LOOKS LIKE TEAMS NOW

I just desperately want an opt-out of the auto-mute when being alone in a huddle

I have my doubts. Making Slack less distracting would be directly antithetical to Slack's monetary interests. Long term, I'd love to be proven wrong, but I have my suspicions that where this is going is slack wants to gain more users, and then slowly ratchet the noise back up

So what's the alternative if this is no good? Is there a FOSS Slack?

As long as cmd + k still allows me to find DMs and/channels I think it’s not too bad. I feel like I prefer the current design mostly because I don’t need a quick glance of the latest message, just that I have unread message, but I won’t know until I try

I’m a big fan from what is visible in that article.

I don’t know if this will be any better but I know I can never find shit in Slack.

I just wish there was a way to get it to handle processing of folder and file paths to your environment. They say it's a security thing which I get, but my team is constantly sharing links to files and folders and it's a PITA having to copy and paste the links into Explorer. If there was some way of making it work securely it would be a big productivity boost a d QOL improvement.

I still prefer discord but good move on thier part.