Disable Slack Wysiwyg

Disables Slack Wysiwyg 'Feature'. Based on Kevin Fahy's script at https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet.
What is Disable Slack Wysiwyg?
Disable Slack Wysiwyg is a Chrome extension that disables Slack's new wysiwyg text editor. It allows users to revert back to using markdown in their text. The extension is based on Kevin Fahy's script and adapted from Github repository pocc/no-wysiwyg.

Extension stats

Users: 38
Rating: 4.00 (3)
Version: 0.1.1 (Last updated: 2019-12-20)
Creation date: 2019-12-20
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 13.73K

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Extension summary

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

User reviews

Works once in several page reloads (sometimes does not work at all). When it does though, it is a bliss.
by Andrew Kravchuk, 2019-12-13

Thanks a lot for writing this extensions. It works perfectly.
by Talha Mansoor, 2019-11-29

Thank you! This extension makes slack usable again. Just install it and it works in the background.
by John Smith, 2019-11-24
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Disable Slack Wysiwyg requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Disable Slack Wysiwyg has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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