Q: Has Slack become more buggy lately? I'm spinning up a new Slack community for a new product launch (Gist) and just started inviting beta testers. The first user I invited accepted the invite and was logged in, but couldn't open the channel in the Slack desktop app. We spent ~10min debugging, restarting the app, and trying to get it working on their phone. It was super weird and makes me wonder if Slack has become a more hostile environment for community building since I last built one of these? Note: This was a Slack I started ~5 months ago, was dead, and is now being revived. Dunno if that could impact things somehow.
I haven't noticed anything more buggy personally. It could be that you're experiencing the new filtering options that Slack introduced recently
Hmm. OK. Hopefully it was a one-off.
Grrr hopefully a one-off! Where exactly was the failure happening? The user couldn't find the channel in the first place, or when they clicked on it something went wrong?
The channel was there. He would click on it. Then nothing. Web worked, but Mac app did not. Was very weird.
I haven't touch Slack since March, so I'm coming out of the wilderness.
My rec is a Cmd+R refresh. Fixes it every time for me
Anyways, onward!
I am building Gist as a solo dev, so I am paranoid about shit breaking in ways I can't see.
Matt M. I think this is the same bug I've had for quite a while. If it is, it has something to do with the toggle to switch between workspaces. I have the left nav menu hidden but I have found if I pop that out, toggle to the new workspace, it works. I then close the menu and it functions again. Maybe try that? I also saw a Reddit thread where people said they cleared the Slack cache or deleted and reinstalled and it fixed it. I'd be curious though if the nav toggle does it for you.
