The redesign is OK.

Annoying how some things moved, still not enough emphasis on channels that have unread messages (light text vs. normal for “bold” to call attention), and still no way to mute all but direct @ messages… so you can’t ever mute @channel or @here without muting the channel. The way Slack handles and automatically closes direct messages and private chats is annoying and I want to be able to turn that off… but I can’t. I have a group I check in with like once every two weeks and I have to rebuild the list or “star it” to save it. But stating it moves it to another area above group messages… not a fan.

Honestly Discord is better in almost every way still. Kinda wish they stole more from Discord.