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Discussion on: Slack is Fumbling Developers

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Thank you for that Ballmer video.

Some of us are reading these for the content, but some of us (ahem) are in it for your trenchant flair for metaphor.

Developers are your canary in the coalmine for user experience - because they create the damn things!

CAN I get an aaaahhhh-aaaayyyyy-MEN BRUTHUSSS!

Also, the removal of the ability to "just markdown that" kind of puzzled me. Glad to see I'm not the only one:

(Developer specific) The new WYSIWYG editor rolled out last year made it annoying for developers accustomed to What We Type Is What We Get Thank You Very Much. Not only does Discord not get in the way of your typing, it offers SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING if you add language identifiers to your code fenced blocks!

This has messed me up so often. I wonder if they did this to imitate Teams.

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swyx

haha thank you! i need to do more of those analogies. i like them too.