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by thechao 2258 days ago
An you expand the width of the chat streams? That’s what really gets me on Slack: the fixed width of threads makes talking about code impossible. Also, slack doesn’t even try to highlight code.
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Not at the moment, but it is a pull-request away. :P

I'll put adjustable-width-threads on our roadmap. ...but if anyone reading this wants to work on it, it would make a decent 'first PR', and I'm available to pair remotely to help you get started. (email in profile)

So much this. It seems to actively encourage NOT using threads. The mobile experience is somewhat better except it's a disorganized mess and I believe they force the auto rendering WYSIWYG. (Stopped updating after they told me they wouldn't support non auto rendering on mobile.)