randy/slack-off.md

Revert Slack's Horrifying New Interface

If you think the new Slack was brought to us by the same folk who brought us New Coke, try this via @rvstaveren@mastodon.online

If you're on Mac/native client, you can enable Developer Tools and do this too (thanks to /u/guitwo on the /r/Slack Reddit):

• Close the Slack app

• Open the terminal and run these two commands separately:

export SLACK_DEVELOPER_MENU=true
open /Applications/Slack.app

• Slack will open with the new theme but now we have access to its console

• Open Slack's console by pressing command + option + I

• Run this in Slack's console:

localStorage.setItem("localConfig_v2",localStorage.getItem("localConfig_v2").replace(/\"is_unified_user_client_enabled\":true/g,'\"is_unified_user_client_enabled\":false'))

• Restart Slack with command + R