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44 pointsmanojlds14 comments

I have to say, I resisted trying slack for a long time, but once I did I was really impressed. It's value was immediately obvious, as I see it as "A nicely skinned IRC client with lots of useful bots included and easy to configure, with good mobile clients." That's an easy sell for someone like me.

It's actually influenced my thoughts on how I want to structure one of my own projects. The actually useful free version that as you start using more of the advanced features (but not specific ones) starts costing seems like a good model to get people in and using your product while also incentivizing users to become customers.

In the case of the IRC-like channels (public etc), the fact that you can ask something + close the browser, and when people reply to you buy mentioning your name you get an email follow up with the answer make it an ideal Q/A platform too, not needing to lurk after asking your question or scroll for a while to find if anyone answered you is an immense value.

Don't basically all of the services do that now? Skype doesn't, I know hipchat does.

A bit of a single data point but I had issues not getting notifications all of the time from Hipchat. How they are doing push notifications must be different :(.

I wasn't expecting such a simple color-scheme change to evoke such a strong reminiscence of each theme's brand/name (most strongly with Spotify, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix).

It's funny how the color-schemes of well-known UIs are so embedded in our memory!

Using history.pushstate for each theme is really obnoxious; after clicking a few radio buttons, I had to hit "back" a dozen times to get back to this page.

Hi! Author of the project here... Sorry you found it disturbing, the intention was to encode the selected theme in the URL so that it can be easily linked to, etc. Maybe I should look into trying to do that with replaceState. Having said that, the code is open-source and PRs are always welcome. ;)

replaceState would be quite welcome! It's good to allow specific themes to be linkable, but it's bad to pollute the history when you click radio buttons, IMO.

Other than that, though, good work. :)

Many browsers allow you to long-click the back/forward buttons to get a list of pages, and you can select just where you want to go back to.

Thanks for this. Just brightened my day!

So pleased to hear that. I'd had enough of hunting around different sites trying to find and test different themes for Slack, so I built one as a weekend project. Enjoy.

Been using this for a while. It is especially helpful if you are part of multiple teams.

Author of the project here... Thanks for the visibility and all the comments. Feel free to ask me anything and/or submit PRs.

this is so cool! new theme everyday :)

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