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What is Slack?
Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020.
The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls.
The company has raised $340M in funding and boasts 800k users.
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A Terrific Form of Communication!
- Reminding others about tasks
- Quick questions
- Socializing
- I find it hard to remember about a message if you already opened it.
- You can't keep one message unread because if you open the message, it automatically marks it as read.
- You can't delete a message that someone wrote to you.
- I find it hard to respond to a previous message. To me, it's not very clear.
Slack has changed our world of work!
- Allows colleagues and I to work out loud
- Easy resource for collaboration
- Easy to transfer of knowledge
- Shows history of communication over the years
- Voice to text to allow for easy typing (similar to Apple)
We have created Slack channels for each team separately and added the respective peoples to it.
When we require to initiate a conversation with peoples belonging to different teams, we just create a separate thread-message for all of us.
My organisation has also made an app called X-Bot and added it to slack to help any FAQs and IT Ticket status/details.
I have integrated it with Zoom and Google Calendar which helps me to not miss any upcoming meetings.
- Can create separate and private channel and add respective peoples to it.
- Share documents, files, code, links in a good format.
- Notification for each direct messages and on channel messages.
- Integrate third-party apps like Zoom, Calendar, etc.
- Provides huddle feature to start instant meeting without sharing any meeting link.
- I'm not able to receive notification sound in Slack app, hence I'm using Slack web UI.
- Sometimes it abruptly stops and doesn't send messages by saying bad connectivity issue.
- Heavy on system resources. A Slack lite app would be much appreciated.
- Communication Channel
- Project management
- Team management via slack channels
- Different Clients management over a single platform
- Easy file sharing and group discussions
- Slack calls are also effective
- Slack messages
- Slack channels
- Slack Calls
- Slack personal space to pen down ideas
- User interface
- Limited communication space as old msgs get deleted
- Quality of call not good
Great fun way for the company to communicate
- Creating fun gifs.
- Notifying everyone in the group about an alert.
- Customization.
- Allowing more than 8 people in a group chat without having to create a channel.
- There were a lot of outages this year.
Fast and efficient communication
- Emojis are really fun because it avoids over crowding channels
- Notifications are great
- I like that I can link my Miro board and Google Drive to Slack
- It's always hard for me to open a new workspace on my app
- Notification sounds or banners do not always work
- Sometimes I have an unread message, but cant find it
Slack : The best official communication tool
- Communication with members of a project ( via channels features where you can create specific dedicated groups for project members only)
- Third-party app integration ( Integration with Asana, Gmail, Jira, GIFy, etc.)
- Daily Huddles - This has been one of the latest addition to the features, and this has been liked by all of our team members. It makes running daily huddles super easy, considering the WFH environment that we are in.
- UI - User interface is generic, and I believe Slack has a huge room for improvement to make it more interactive and friendly.
- If you use the search option on Slack, it gives results from open groups as well. Since the groups are open and not locked, it's okay to display the results, but I feel those results should not appear as there might be some of the pre-development confidential ideas which are not supposed to be shared with a large audience.
- Display of Profile status - Currently, you have to hover over the profile to know the status, but it would be quite useful if we have a small line just below the name, and it appears during the conversation too. The reason I feel it would be a good change is because we use it to display our leaves as well, and if the status is visible easily, people can know about our availability
- Messaging Platform
- Audio/Video Calls
- Present Screen
- Private Groups and Public Channels
- Wide Range of Emojis
- There are minor bugs here and there like the theme resets sometimes when launching Slack.
Great Communication Solution
- HubSpot integration
- Outlook calendar meeting status update
- Tagging an individual, team or everyone
- Refresh glitches, every so often Slack goes blank, not sure if it's a cache issue or something within the programming, not a frequent issue
- Reduce costs
- Audio/video call improvements
- The Remind Feature is amazing! Allowing me to type down a "To-Do" list and ask Slack to remind me about it later.
- Allowing different channels is so important - It helps us keep conversations separate and focused.
- Huddles - Basically phone calls are very handy when you quickly need to talk to someone rather than message them. It is also helpful to be able to show your screen quickly rather than hop into an online conference room.
- I wish there was a "Night Mode" that would help slowly turn down the brightness or contrast in the program to help your eyes not feel so strained as the day gets into the dark hours or even in the morning.
- I wish that channels didn't have to be in alphabetical order and would allow me to change the "list" to what I needed at the top.
- Easily communicate with teams
- Create targeted groups to filter communication
- Connecting to Apps seamlessly
- Group App Alerts sometimes start on the last conversation instead of the first missed conversation.
- Sync to mobile.
- Google drive and calendar integration.
- Pre-scheduling messages.
- The default knock brush IM sound gives me PTSD, time to change it?
- Missed notifications.
- Inability to flag messages for follow-up.
Enthusiastic proponent of Slack!
- Easy to understand organization of threads, messages, and groups
- Customized preferences for sound notifications
- Thread function allows separate conversations to be grouped in large group chats
- Wish there was a central location to view all public channels. "Browse channels" is not comprehensive.
- Wish drafts would save for longer, they often disappear after a few minutes
- Had some issues uploading a photo without it distorting the proportions
Slack is a great product
- Easy to use/learn
- with the correct rights it is easy to be an admin
- all the view options and possible configuration
- The Search feature for previous messages could be more complete
- the notifications could be more controllable
Reduced the time to communicate from hours to seconds!
- Ad-hoc communications
- Increase engagement between remote teams
- Reduce the reliance on Email
- Provide greater opportunity to collaborate
- full integration on communications (voice, video)
- does not suit an academic setting
- not very easy to configure for guest users
Team collaboration tool
- Instant messaging
- Calls / huddles
- Slack Groups to collaborate
- After a Slack call/huddle, it doesn’t end automatically after the call ends
- When someone calls through Slack, direct join call option is quite confusing, it says join huddle and call attend option does not work well most of the times
- No direct link for joining the Slack meeting
- Personalization of visuals (colors, patterns, dark scheme)
- Multiple channel creation for individual or team chats
- Dual function of web based and app based for flexibility
- Connectivity across app to desktop for continued conversations
- You can't get it if you don't know it exists (need more visibility)
- More integration for presentations or adding attachments
- Easier access to customer support?
Amazing and a must to have !
- Notifications in bold on the name of channel
- share the screen
- link google agendas
- availabilities option for each users
- option of private channel
- Search function
- Often Slack calls don't work. Either it is impossible to call someone or the sound does not work.
- Sometimes the pencil is available for screen sharing other times it is not available.
Slack: A best tool for business management.
- Excellent in terms of tracking new and upcoming orders for business.
- Create various channels to manage your team and departments.
- The User Interface (UI) is friendly.
- Portable and to use. They both have software, website and application.
- Excellent in terms of fast communication with employer, team and co-workers.
- You can have a voice call with you team. But, it's better to have a video call function.
- Sometimes it's hard to find the direct message in threads.
- When opening the software and app. The refresh rate after logging in is slow.
- If you manage 2 businesses. You can't manage them in one platform because you need to create a separate Slack link for it.
Essential communication tool for organization
In an organization, multiple projects are running so needs to manage all data of particular projects.
Also, different employees are working on some projects, so by creating a channel in Slack, we can manage our work and data to succeed in the project.
- Channel in slack is very useful.
- Integration with other apps is very handy like with google calendar.
- We can set time of our working hour after that we didn't got notification of message.
- Reaction on message is very useful and unique feature.
- Searching message is effective, we can easily find previous message or files.
- There is lack of feature that can see our message is read or not.
- In mobile app sometimes notification is not working fine.
- Desktop application is sometimes takes much time to open slack.
- It takes much RAM of device.
A UX Researchers daily gamet of a tool.
- channels
- Reminders
- Bots
- Calls
- Huddle quality and bandwidth on phones.
- Chat segregation.
Keep a Slack in Your Bag
- Communication with coworkers
- Separate discussion into channels
- Announcements and sharing content
- Direct messaging
- Calls
- Organizing channels & people (subchannels, teams, etc.)
- Bookmarking interesting topics
Slack: A Useful Communication App
- It is easy to use and communicate with Slack.
- I can send documents in Slack itself.
- We have text formatting options also in Slack.
- The searching of a particular Slack channel is difficult.
- The usage of mobile Slack is difficult compared to desktop.
- Sometimes, it is slow maybe due to some problems.
Great shared document program. Excellent group chat platform
- Group chat.
- Single place for messaging and files.
- Great way to share docs.
- Show conversations chronologically.
- Allow better notification settings, so that you can have a push notification based on importance.
Whenever feel Slack, remember to slack with peers
Every day we use Direct messages. We use it for discussing in temporary/permanent channels. So our use cases are:
-To connect with peers through direct messages.
-To discuss ib channels.
-To reply in the thread.
-To discuss in a quick huddle.
-Chat with peers through direct messages.
-To discuss in quick huddle.
- Chat with peers through direct messages.
- To discuss in quick huddle.
- Chat in various channels.
- To reply on threads.
- Whenever we huddle and share the screen it hangs a lot.
- Huddling with peers sometimes have voice lag.
- Screen freezes after huddling with the screen share end and when the user wants to chat with peers.