Disables Slack Wysiwyg 'Feature'. Based on Kevin Fahy's script at https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet.

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Version
0.1.1
Update
December 20, 2019
Size
13.41KiB
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Users
36
Rating
4 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Disable Slack Wysiwyg Extension

UPDATE (2019-12-18): The script this extension is based on no longer works (as of Slack version hash 0756f06a6f0457de4e355149a4321a9abb8befa5). For more information (or to help fix this), read the issue: https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet/issues/27.

Disables Slack's new wysiwyg text editor.

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/, 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.

Kevin Fahy created a short script that allows users to disable the new wysiwyg editor (https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet).
This extension is adapted from that script: Github: https://github.com/pocc/no-wysiwyg. To see it in action, look at the screenshot.

Inspired by the Hacker News articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589647, https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "content_scripts": [ { "js": ["loader.js"], "matches": ["*://*.slack.com/*"], "run_at": "document_idle" } ], "icons": { "16": "img/icon16.png", "48": "img/icon48.png", "128": "img/icon128.png" }, "description": "Disables Slack Wysiwyg 'Feature'. Based on Kevin Fahy's script at https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet.", "manifest_version": 2, "author": "Ross Jacobs", "name": "Disable Slack Wysiwyg", "version": "0.1.1", "web_accessible_resources": ["index.js"]}
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User reviews

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Andrew Kravchuk (ID: 0000004b45cd20c4) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 12/13/2019 Works once in several page reloads (sometimes does not work at all). When it does though, it is a bliss.

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Talha Mansoor (ID: 000000f8f9c84ff0) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/29/2019 Thanks a lot for writing this extensions. It works perfectly.

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John Smith (ID: 00000057e697445f) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/24/2019 Thank you! This extension makes slack usable again. Just install it and it works in the background.