Me too. The all threads list being in opposite chronological order as the all unread list blew my mind also.
So I've moved everything to discord and have never been happier. Faster, smoother, chat as it should be, with no 10,000 message limit and broken search. I really wish every public slack group would switch (like Elixir and others). With a 10,000 message limit and 700+ users online, it's practically snapchat...
Not to mention webhooks being dead simple and dead awesome.
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I know there's third party sites that act as directories but it's a bit of a hassle, I wish they'd have two separate products, the gaming one with a public directory and one to create private communities that can be used for other purposes.
When you have too much money and a large enough product team, the path of least resistance seems to be: keep them busy building as many features as they can.
The end result is that a product that was successful _because_ of its simplicity loses its primary appeal and switches to a business model predicated on networking effect and/or marketing.
Sadly, WinAmp Syndrome is usually fatal.
I guess I am just not sophisticated user to configure it to my requirements.
Over time though, you get used to it, and it is imho much less cumbersome to use than any alternatives (certainly IRC). Need to send a large XML file? Hit the plus button next to where you type messages. Want to just dump it to chat? Surround in triple backticks.