Paul Betts

Slack for Mac - A new, improved Slack desktop app for Mac

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Joshua Dance
@paulcbetts Love the look, don't love the missing menu bar. How do I move the window around? The profile menu pops up when I grab it above that area, and the text gets selected when I move it above the chat area. Is there a better way to move the Slack window around? Problem ->
Paul Betts
@joshdance Hm, we'll try to make this better!
Joshua Dance
@paulcbetts awesome!
Veli Bahçeci

When I use the platform for my mac, it makes other applications to slow. It is taking most the capacity of ram!

Pros:

One platform for slack

Cons:

Very slow, eating the ram!

Daniel Alm
Great update! However, with the old version I could use the Accessibility API to track the currently active team and channel for my app Timing (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...). Seems like the Accessibility API is disabled in the new version. Any plans to change that?
Paul Betts
@daniel_a_a Accessibility is enabled only if Voiceover is enabled, because enabling it hurts performance. We'll look into changing this in the future, but we'd probably rather create a real API for this instead of having people have to hack their way in
Paula Shin
Awwwwnn... any chance to have a better windows version? Thanks for all the work tho :D
Paul Betts
@paulashin Hey Paula, Our Windows app is going to be updated to 2.3.0 in the near future (like, if you join the beta, you'll get it in a day or two). Anything in particular you're looking for?
Mario Gomez-Hall
Love the speed of this new one -- been on the beta for a little and it's been awesome. One idea I wish you guys would implement - automatically sign in to all my teams across all my devices. E.g. have one master account and then when I log into a new team on desktop, mirror that change on mobile so I can hit the ground running. I don't like having to "join" teams on every device. Excellent work and i'm excited for the future. Oh, and add video calls asap, please :)
Paul Betts
@nadomars We definitely hear the feedback we're getting around logging into >1 team with the same identity. This gets a little more tricky when you think about the edge cases though - for example, which of the N team admins gets to set things like password policy or requiring 2FA for your single identity? Anyways, we definitely sympathize with The Problem and we'll do our best to come up with a good solution
Matt Nicolae
@paulcbetts @nadomars You guys should go the route of a slack specific username login. Each team could still have company specific email logins, but it can be tied to the slack username. I may be off because I'm lying in bed and I don't dev anything..
Tobyn Sowden
Yep, this is a great release. Impressed with the number of open source libraries that Slack has contributed.
Jared Husch
Fantastic platform. Have noticed badges still don't update accurately across applications on different operating systems. Constantly move between endpoints(iPhone, MacBook Pro, and iMac) during a day. Important for me to have badges accurate and updating in real time.
Paul Betts
@jaredhusch This is sadly a tricky problem across all of our applications, we need to do better at it
Troy Osinoff
Random question for @paulcbetts, do you guys have any plans for a native team signup page I can send to people with a link to join a slack channel? (Rather than an email invite) (Assuming this doesn't exist yet and i overlooked it) It would be most helpful for growing niche slack communities.)
Paul Betts
@yo I'm not sure about this, but I think that a lot of people use slackin for this
Varun Yellina
Hey I'm a little confused. Wasn't the new menumalist design supposed to land in 2.3.0? http://imgur.com/a/1bhSM I'm on the same release downloaded directly from homebrew cask.
Varun Yellina
Restarting the app fixed it.
Varun Yellina
@paulcbetts New app has ui issues on macOS sierra when using the voice call feature. Especially when moving away from the call tab. http://imgur.com/EGYzJcV