Add Ons – Fusion Nepal

Slack is a powerful tool, and with great power comes the great responsibility…to screw with your coworkers.

A new Slack add-on from programmer Will Leinweber does just that, in pretty much the most diabolical way possible. Essentially, whenever anyone else starts typing it shows them a message that you, too, happen to be typing. And when they stop? That message goes away.

You see the problem — or, rather, the opportunity.

“I made a VGP (very good program) that makes it so it looks like I’m typing on Slack whenever anyone else is typing, and stops when they stop,” he tweeted out along with a video of the program in action. “Everyone loves it so far and doesn’t find it annoying at all!” Read more…

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