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

Kinda just looks like Teams...

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

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

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

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 still prefer discord but good move on thier part.

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.