Slack on MacOS: Keeping Sidebar open

Slack rolled out a new UX change recently that auto-hides the sidebar (at least on MacOS). Is there any way I can keep it open? I found this in preferences under "sidebar" but it is what to show in the sidebar. What I want is a preference for "always show sidebar."

Am I missing something? (I am aware of the Cmd-Shft-D shortcut to expand... just don't want to have to do that all the time)

Solution 1:

I pinged Slack support and they got back to me 45m later. This basically solved this for me. I highlighted the parts that were critical for me. It has to do with the ratio of widths.

Fazil here from Slack Support. (...)

When it comes to the sidebar automatically disappearing, this would only happen if your Slack window is too narrow and I wonder if this might be what's happening in your case as well. You could try expanding the width threshold by resizing your sidebar to be smaller.

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Note that it also might be the width of the thread/profile/etc. panel on the right that is causing the issue - if it's too wide, then the sidebar also starts to autohide.

Amazing support. Thanks Slack!