
With this change in behavior, we hope to give you the powers of both omniscience and time travel. We’ve simplified that: Now,swiping right will reveal your workspace and preferences, and swiping left will get you back to the last conversation you were in.
And finally, it came to pass, as time went by, that in the old version of the app, there was a lot of swiping back and forth to get places. A new lightning bolt under the message box now gives quick access to shortcuts, and thereby solves this age-old problem. Our apologies to people who have been wanting to easily set reminders, start workflows or access favourite apps in channels and conversations - it was hard to work out how to do that on the move. With an application of logic, software engineering, and a new “Compose” button in the bottom right corner, this has been rectified. It seemed bizarrely hard to create a new message in a channel or DM without finding that precise location first. So we made the Jump To box more prominent (and smarter) to fix this.
The quickswitcher on the desktop app is wonderful, but we discovered an issue where people weren’t using it as much on mobile.
We’ve fixed this with a new nifty navigation bar at the bottom of the app containing: a Home view for your sidebar, DMs, (still listed most recent first), Mentions (for quickly catching up), and You (because you’re great) (and also because setting your status/preferences on mobile needed to be easier).
Previously, it was complicated to get to the four main things people do on mobile.