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I suppose a new acronym would be suitable for this situation: WYSIWYGBNWYW, What You See Is What You Get But Not What You Want.

With the availability of detailed API documentation (https://api.slack.com ) that seems to make it relatively easy to write your own client (and they even link to some thirdparty clients as an example of what you can do), their refusal to change could almost be interpreted as "no, you fix it".

If I had the need and time, I could probably write a native Win32 Slack client in a very short time; in fact I'm a bit surprised that one hasn't appeared yet because I was expecting that to happen. Maybe it will, if they keep messing around with the official client.



Back in ye olde days, we'd call this WYGIWYS.


What You See Is What We Give You.




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