Did slack just change the default profile pictures...

# random

[karelpeeters]

Did slack just change the default profile pictures? Why would you do that? Now I won't recognize a bunch of people any more.

[poohbar]

hah yeah they did... i first noticed on our company slack that my boss' image changed and i was like whaaat because he never cared for that 😄

[david-wg2]

🤔

[david-wg2]

so this is my new identity

[poohbar]

yes, this is who you are now

[karelpeeters]

And damm the icons are ugly.

[poohbar]

meh.. the old ones weren't exactly beautiful either imo

[fred.deschenes]

they also changed the app's icon on Android

[dalexander]

Hello fellow cyan-green-red-yellow corner person.

[dalexander]

This may be enough motivate me to find an icon to use for this slack though.

[poohbar]

sucks to be you since catstrounaut is clearly taken 😄

[Gerard Klijs]

I don't have an own avatar her either right?

[Shawn]

Yeah, they changed it to align with the logo change

[Shawn]

I’m not in love with it myself but I don’t care enough to complain either

[david-wg2]

@poohbar close enough?

[karelpeeters]

It just feels like change for change's sake.

[poohbar]

awww

[poohbar]

yeah the new logo is weird

[poohbar]

those little tear drops are jarring

[poohbar]

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[david-wg2]

https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/17/slack-new-logo-looks-like-penis-swastika-8354501/

[Shawn]

I mean, I get the impetus, the old logo did have some practical issues

[Shawn]

I don’t agree with this direction but they could’ve done a lot worse

[Shawn]

the swastika comparisons are a bit of a stretch imo, and it’s not even in the correct direction or orientation to bring ol’ Godwin into the discussion

[Shawn]

My personal take on it is that it kinda looks like a sweaty pinwheel, but only if I look at it hard enough lol

[poohbar]

it does not look like a swastika at all, what is Mr Hamill smoking..

[david-wg2]

there's a negative space swastika there alright

[poohbar]

oh no i see it

[david-wg2]

you get super aware of them if you're doing mirrored/rotated logo design with symbols

[karelpeeters]

Now that you've said that I can't stop seeing it!

[poohbar]

omg

[poohbar]

you ruined it for me david

[david-wg2]

😄

[Shawn]

shrung

[karelpeeters]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Shawn]

some helpful links if you wanna read a bit more about the change (and the reaction)
https://slackhq.com/say-hello-new-logo?sf97476398=1
https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1085609385542459393
https://slack.com/media-kit
https://brandfolder.com/slack/logos

[Shawn]

The Twitter thread is a bit of a tire fire, but it’s good morning coffee reading

[karelpeeters]

Firstly, it’s not change for the sake of change.

Looks like I was wrong 🙄

[poohbar]

some other shapes

[poohbar]

https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/618d5092-a542-4dae-bd27-a3afb4bcc12d/mb_slack_05.jpg?w=740&crop=1&fm=jpg&q=70&auto=format&fit=crop&h=493

[Shawn]

one of the alternative designs literally has a big ol’ swastika in the middle lol

[Shawn]

the end product also kinda reminds me of the old Minute Clinic logo but I doubt there’s much overlap in brand recognition there

[karelpeeters]

Slack sells socks 🤦‍♂️

[Shawn]

They do, and I’ve wanted to snag a pair at a recruiting event or something for a while now

[Shawn]

Missed the boat on that one I think, though knowing how these things shake out, they’ll still have a bit of old merch to give out for a little while

[poohbar]

I think the tear drop shape is supposed to resemble the sharp corner of a "message bubble"

[poohbar]

which is funny since slack does not put messages into bubbles on any devices

[Shawn]

Yeah, but it implicitly conveys “chat” to a lot of people, which I think makes some sense

[karelpeeters]

What message bubble are you taking about?

[Shawn]

Like in iMessage or FB Messenger

[Shawn]

Sorta resembling speech bubbles of comics and whatnot

[Shawn]

https://twitter.com/peterjskennedy/status/1085699708599689216

[karelpeeters]

Great, another thing I can't unsee.

[oday]

haha

[oday]

yea they have karel peeters’ needs as a bullet point in their board meetings

[oday]

guys we have to cater for karel, for god’s sake!

[karelpeeters]

Yeah I'm having a lot of trouble coping with theses changes 😠

[oday]

what’s the names layout you have?

[oday]

i have by nickname

[oday]

with avatar

[oday]

i love the redesign, i only wish they had a reWRITE to not make desktop app so heavy

[karelpeeters]

you mean this?

[oday]

yea

[oday]

what’s wrong with figuring out who’s who in that layout?

[karelpeeters]

I remember most active people from their pictures, eg. @elect, but now they have changed.

[oday]

see I think we have enough bullshit to remember at the job, that we don’t have room for anything else to change 😄

[elect]

is it changed?

[karelpeeters]

Yeah, you now look like this

[elect]

wtf, I see it always the same here..

[karelpeeters]

Previously you looked like this (thank you outdated mobile cache)

[elect]

exactly, that's what I see

[karelpeeters]

On mobile?

[elect]

on desktop

[elect]

right now

[elect]

I dont get why it shall be different on your mobile, anyway, maybe it's time for me to pick up an avatar..

[karelpeeters]

As they say:

There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

[elect]

😄

[orangy]

Three execution! third is actually parallel.

[karelpeeters]

Wait did you mess up the order of the words intentionally or am I misunderstanding?

[karelpeeters]

Okay just checking, it's getting a bit late here simple smile

[orangy]

There is also exactly once exactly once delivery 🙂