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My favorite Slack feature was never knowing for sure which of the 5 buttons in the upper right corner contained the thing I was looking for.

It's that sort of uncertainty that reminded me of life's uncertainties in general on a regular basis.

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Mine is how it will reposition your channel or DM name in the sidebar if you start writing a message, but switch to another section for a moment. I opened an issue about it because I felt like I was losing my mind. Didn't I just have this open right here? Where did it go? No, it gets placed in some Drafts section. They won't fix it or create a toggle to stop doing this because leaving me in a confused state is more productive apparently.

And don't get me started on the little Slackbot notifications for absolutely everything. (Yes, Slackbot. I requested everything in the channel to be collapsed. I know what that means. You don't have to drop a message every single time. Ffs.)

Moving things into Drafts is the single worst thing they've done, topping even the super-terrible rich-text changes.

Copying something into Drafts, sure, I can see that. But moving it? Absolutely broken to the point of unusability.

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