Slack preferences I have set

In “How I use my phone”, and in two prior blog posts about greyscale and night shift mode, I spoke about how I customise some of the software I use. I was inspired to write my phone in large part by discussions with friends. I then realised that such blog posts are a means to show how I have customised technology to make it my own. 1Yesterday I ran into a discussion where someone made reference to a link preview in Slack. I realised I couldn’t see it because I have link previews turned off, a decision I made so that it is easier for me to focus on the words in people’s messages. Then I thought: I should write about some of the preferences I have set, again to show how I have customised technology to make it my own.With that in mind, below are a few preferences I have set in Slack, specifically in the IndieWeb community Slack. The preferences I am going to talk about are all available in the Preferences window in the Slack application. Some of the settings I have set are not ones I…