Interesting how they decide to remove features like 'seen' and 'online' in an effort to prioritize the actual message.

Offtopic- I hate those features to begin with, but I know I'm the product not the customer, and those features are to keep people on the app.

I haven't used FB Messenger, but I also hate features where they show if the other person is typing a response. I intentionally disable it in Slack, so the other person simply sees a response when I'm done with it.

> I intentionally disable it in Slack, so the other person simply sees a response when I'm done with it.

FYI, I don't think that is possible in Slack. You can choose to hide typing indicators in your view, but AFAICT you can't prevent other people from seeing when YOU are typing: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1057288342671368194

Hmm I suspect that was the case. anyway, what I do now is type to myself, then copy and paste the response.

If you use the browser client, you should be able to make a simple Greasemonkey script to replace the default text input. Might save some time in the long run.

I guess someone like me could make a browser add-on, too. Though I don't know how many people use the browser client vs. the app.

If you run a proxy you could also block those requests.

The ability to roll your own Slack Client would be great thing imho. I really don't like the default UI (which is also the same layout as all the web based messaging apps, like it's somehow a good thing). I 100% happy with a small window with an IRC style layout - it's a shame I can't use slack (+whatsapp, +messenger) like this.