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		woodrowbarlow on May 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tiny websites are great i think slack now allows you to disable the visual editor in settings - you can still format with markdown but the formatting isn't rendered until you send.

ssb1 on May 19, 2020 [–]

Yeah but it's half-arsed; specifically, doesn't do [links](...).

woodrowbarlow on May 19, 2020 | [–]

that sounds so aggravating. i haven't used slack in years but it sounds like its functionality has taken nothing but steps backwards since then.

but i'm sure they've added cool new react emojis, so i guess they've been pretty busy with that.

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