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Slack: hide people statuses in the sidebar

Removes other people's custom status text from direct message rows in the sidebar for a calmer list.

Code to copy

// Strip custom status text from sidebar DM rows for a calmer list
function stripStatus() {
  document.querySelectorAll('.p-channel_sidebar__channel .c-presence__status_text:not([data-jz-clean])').forEach(function (el) {
    el.setAttribute('data-jz-clean', '1');
    el.textContent = '';
  });
}
stripStatus();
const stObs = new MutationObserver(stripStatus);
stObs.observe(document.documentElement, { childList: true, subtree: true });

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