https://github.com/pocc/no-wysiwyg
Browser extensions to disables Slack's new wysiwyg text editor.
https://github.com/pocc/no-wysiwyg
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Browser extensions to disables Slack's new wysiwyg text editor.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pocc/no-wysiwyg
- Owner: pocc
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2019-11-21T15:05:53.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-11-23T01:36:22.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-25T07:36:04.672Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 371 KB
- Stars: 7
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# No-WYSIWYG
Browser extensions to disable Slack's new wysiwyg text editor. Based on [Kevin Fahy's script](https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet) that does the same.
## Installation
Official extensions have been registered:
* Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-slack-wysiwyg/
* Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jenojkbpialbgpbgokiakifhpmoponjn
To install locally to your machine, check out [releases](https://github.com/pocc/no-wysiwyg/releases).
## Background
Slack used to have the ability to use markdown in their text. They changed this permanently for all users without the ability to go back. Per Arthur O’Dwyer on his blog entry that was posted on [Hacker News](https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/11/20/slack-rich-text-box/) on 2019-11-20):
> Slack has just recently rolled out a “WYSIWYG text input” widget to its Web browser interface. (Apparently, the phased rollout started at the beginning of November 2019, but it’s just now starting to hit the workspaces that I participate in.) The user experience of using this new input method is really, really, really bad.
Inspired by the 2 Hacker News articles today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589647, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21591950
## License
Apache 2.0