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April 26, 2018 06:16 pm GMT
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New Slack add-on will surely ruin your coworkers’ day
Slack is a powerful tool, and with great power comes the great responsibility...to screw with your coworkers.
A new Slack add-on from programmer Will Leinweber does just that, in pretty much the most diabolical way possible. Essentially, whenever anyone else starts typing it shows them a message that you, too, happen to be typing. And when they stop? That message goes away.
You see the problem — or, rather, the opportunity.
"I made a VGP (very good program) that makes it so it looks like I'm typing on Slack whenever anyone else is typing, and stops when they stop," he tweeted out along with a video of the program in action. "Everyone loves it so far and doesn't find it annoying at all!" Read more...
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