:loudspeaker: <Channel renaming in progress>. Here...
# thinking-togetheri
Ivan Reese
08/15/2020, 4:19 AM
📢 Channel renaming in progress. Here's hoping I get it all done before my toddler wakes up 🤞
EDIT: Done for the night. More updates to come, likely on Sunday rather than Saturday. Cheers 🍻
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Ivan Reese
08/15/2020, 5:05 AM
Interesting wrinkle — when you use the #hashtag name for a channel in a message, and then rename the channel, your message is updated to reflect the new name. Most curious, and likely carries a number of second order consequences.
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shalabh
08/15/2020, 5:19 AMyeah interesting
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Ivan Reese
08/15/2020, 5:21 AM
wonder if they store it all as text and just rewrite the messages as-persisted, or if the channel name is somehow transcluded into the message at render time, or something else.
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shalabh
08/15/2020, 5:24 AMyeah more importantly how do you refer to the old name, let me try.. #general
shalabh
08/15/2020, 5:24 AMok you could just edit the msg I guess.
shalabh
08/15/2020, 5:27 AManother instance
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Ivan Reese
08/15/2020, 5:47 AM
^ Yeah, that's wild. I'm half-tempted to.. okay, gonna do it. Back in a sec.
Ivan Reese
08/15/2020, 5:49 AM
Renamed it to #your-work to see what would happen. So it looks like they're not doing a totally naive regex rename.
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shalabh
08/15/2020, 5:50 AMwait wat.
shalabh
08/15/2020, 5:50 AMshouldn't you change it to # feedback?
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Ivan Reese
08/15/2020, 6:01 AM
I could have changed it to anything — I just wanted to see what happened to my message (where the text
#share-your-workIvan Reese
08/15/2020, 6:02 AM
(I just spent 20 minutes manually adding everyone to #CGMJ7323Z and cleaning up errors due to their crummy add-people-to-channel UI, so.. can't blame me for being suspicious about Slack's dusty UX corners and hidden cliffs)
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