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Hopefully setting the stage for better support!
Slack seems to want to participate in the mindless cycle of e-waste generation. Basic maintenance apparently means regular OS upgrades, which of course eliminates systems that cannot receive those upgrades, but are otherwise not only serviceable, but fast.
It’s amazing that you can implement massive creative tools that stretch the limits of the imagination, on hardware and OS that is 5 years old. But chatting? Collaborating? Posting a picture? Basically a glorified IRC system? Nope. That requires Windows 11. That requires macOS Ventura. Next year it will magically require macOS Sonoma.
Of course, some cretin will chime in, blathering about security. Newsflash: a well secured Windows 7 system is infinitely more secure than a default Windows 11 install. The same goes for macOS Catalina, or even High Sierra. Not surprisingly, those systems are actually faster at performing most tasks, as the most observable change to the operating systems over the years has been bloat and inefficiency.
However, on the positive side, Slack cares about its iOS release notes, and always attempts to at least bring some lighthearted humor to the banal experience of updating. They contain some detail, as well, rather than the rote “we are continuously striving to improve your experience”. Slack should actually be in the business of writing release notes for other app developers, and maybe some OS developers as well.Show lessManny Rinaldi
Developer Response
We'd be interested in hearing more about this issue. When you have a moment, please tap on your profile picture on the top of the screen - "Preferences" - "Send Feedback" to flag this with our support team and provide some logs we'll need to investigate. We'll be happy to help!Channel Exceptions for Pause/DnD Mode
Overall I enjoy using this app, especially compared to other team communication apps I’ve been forced to use in the past. The only feedback I have is to please enable further options for the Notification Schedule than allow for Channel exceptions.
I mostly use the notifications schedule to schedule out my nights and weekends, but for my job I need to be on call consistently. If I leave the Pause Schedule off I get blasted by notifications that only pertain to me when I’m actively working. So having an option to turn on the Pause Schedule but allow a channel or two to keep notifying me would improve my enjoyment of this app I wouldn’t have to constantly battle between pausing notifications and worry about missing a critical one or leaving it on deal with the abundance of notifications that I need deal with when I’m actively working.Show lessSundanceOdyssey
Developer Response
Hello! Thanks for sharing this feedback with us! We'll be happy to forward this suggestion on to our product team. If you have any other feedback to share, please reach out via email to feedback@slack.com.This drivers contract just isn’t for me…
I never got a chance to make a delivery or return due to being automatically removed from a scheduled job. The first time this happened I was 10 minutes away from the site at Dean St. when I received the message and was told to message support to find out why. Since I was already in the area I went in to ask in “why” in person. So the person on duty researched and told me that the payment wasn’t confirmed. So that was 2 hours of my time and transportation fees waisted. While we are told to hit start 2 hours ahead, the discrepancy is that the employee possibly starts their trip before that. So the payment should be confirmed sooner than 1hr and 40min before the scheduled destination. So I was hesitant to even try this again and cancelled everything for the rest of the week. The following week I decided to give it another shot only to have another job removed before I even started for the week. At least the second time the automatic removal was the day before! However, this type of system has some quirks! Schedules are made for a reason. I could give suggestions to fix but everything and everyone seems automated/online (message support). Note: Drivers should only be able to schedule Available trips once payment is confirmed. To coincide with the penalty for a driver, if they cancel a scheduled trip.
—DisappointedShow lessPotiential