Slack

Slack Technologies Inc.

About this app

Slack brings team communication and collaboration into one place so you can get more work done, whether you belong to a large enterprise or a small business. Check off your to-do list and move your projects forward by bringing the right people, conversations, tools, and information you need together. Slack is available on any device, so you can find and access your team and your work, whether you’re at your desk or on the go.

Use Slack to:
• Communicate with your team and organize your conversations by topics, projects, or anything else that matters to your work
• Message or call any person or group within your team
• Share and edit documents and collaborate with the right people all in Slack
• Integrate into your workflow, the tools and services you already use including Google Drive, Salesforce, Dropbox, Asana, Twitter, Zendesk, and more
• Easily search a central knowledge base that automatically indexes and archives your team’s past conversations and files
• Customize your notifications so you stay focused on what matters

Scientifically proven (or at least rumored) to make your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. We hope you’ll give Slack a try.

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Ratings and reviews

It is often difficult and confusing to navigate the UI and send messages. I have a relatively very high tech acuity, and this app is not intuitive in many ways. E.g., my boss recently started a group thread with three people. Seems simple enough. But then in someone's reply, it started some new "sub thread" or conversation, and when I tried to reply to that, the app prompts me to select whether I want to also send the message to the group. So confusing! Please simplify process and organization.

The new ui puts every workspace at the same layer. Suddenly I have 7 channels all named "announcements," with no way to tell which one is which. This makes the app useless for my teams. We're already seeing usage dropping off dramatically. UPDATE: while you can isolate groups in both the desktop and mobile app, it doesn't make it easy to find and most of my students never find it. It also makes notifications bewildering. Most of the class gave up and moved off the system.

Latest update is really awful. Now messages often won't send or take several minutes to send, and I have either a blank Slack notification on my notification bar the whole time it tries to send a message, or there's one that says "Sending message..." that appears and disappears over several minutes. For each message sent. Edit: I cleared the apps cache like suggested and it didn't help. I also now have a permanent blank slack notification, even when the app isn't being used and is force closed.

What's new

Bug Fixes
• Fixed: Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states that we cannot accurately measure both the position and momentum of a given particle at the same time. Slack’s uncertainty principle states that the number of reactions shown in the Activity view did not always correspond to the actual number of reacji. Let’s take some of the guesswork out—we’re relatively certain that this bug is now fixed.