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lanyard-textile on Nov 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

Oh man, Lync. The re-skin of MSN Messenger that nobody wanted.

I remember when I couldn't change my status from "Away" for some reason. On my computer it would always show me as "Online," but to everyone else I had been away for 300+ days.

enigmo on Nov 21, 2019 [–]

from what I recall (knew some folks on both teams) there was zero shared code. always thought Messenger was the better implementation.

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