Slack is a popular instant messaging app that many companies (especially among tech companies) use for internal team communications and collaborations. The company actually just had its IPO earlier this year (June 20th, 2019, to be exact) and peaked at an evaluation of over $20 billion.
To be honest, Slack is great for the communication part, but it can also be super distracting with all the notifications from all the channels you are in (some channels you just don't want to mute). And I actually sometimes intentionally turn it off for hours at a time if I need to get into the zone and focus on coding, troubleshooting, or designing.
One feature in slack is that you can edit your own messages in case you had a typo, forgot to @someone, or need to add additional info. But you might find that sometimes you can just right click on the message and select "edit message" to make your changes:
But some other times, when you right click, the edit option is missing from the menu and can't be found in the "More message actions..." screen either. WHY???
Turned out this is a setting your Slack admin can set, which governs how much time you have if you need to make edits. If you wait for too long, then you will lose the permission to edit. This help page below shows you how you can adjust that permission setting if you are the workspace owner or admin:
Manage permissions for message editing and deletion
I am neither the owner nor the admin, so I simply start a thread under the message I have lost the permission to edit and just post corrections there.
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One feature in slack is that you can edit your own messages in case you had a typo, forgot to @someone, or need to add additional info. But you might find that sometimes you can just right click on the message and select "edit message" to make your changes:
But some other times, when you right click, the edit option is missing from the menu and can't be found in the "More message actions..." screen either. WHY???
Turned out this is a setting your Slack admin can set, which governs how much time you have if you need to make edits. If you wait for too long, then you will lose the permission to edit. This help page below shows you how you can adjust that permission setting if you are the workspace owner or admin:
Manage permissions for message editing and deletion
I am neither the owner nor the admin, so I simply start a thread under the message I have lost the permission to edit and just post corrections there.
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This was cool, but it's not helpful to me since I don't have slack it's cool to know!
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