Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, August 9th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Slack announces its biggest ever redesign.

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getting better anytime soon. Is We Work circling the drain. Why a gizamoto

editor is suing Apple over Tetris and guess what? The bots are better at solving

captures than you are. Something something Turing test. Here's what you miss today in the

world of Tech. Again maybe this is one of those things I don't have to tell you because you've already

seen it, but Slack has announced its biggest ever redesign.

Catering, they say, to power users, adding a new home home section a new sidebar on the left a new

d.m. section and an activity window quoting the verge. When you first load

slack you'll be taken to a new home section that looks a lot like the existing Slack interface.

It shows your channels, dms, and apps like you see in the current app.

After that is where things start to change.

The most noticeable thing in Slack is a new

sidebar on the left side which shows all your Slack stuff in a few new ways.

There's a new DMs section that looks like most other messaging and email

apps and even resembles

Slack's arch enemy Microsoft teams.

All your conversations on the left and the active one on the right.

The idea is to give you a way to manage all your chats in one place no matter what channel or

workspace they came from.

Further down, the sidebar is a new activity window that Noah Weiss, Slack's chief product

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