







WSJ. Magazine’s 2015 Technology Innovator and co-founder and CEO of Slack believes in the power of play. After a year and a half of runaway user growth, his app is changing the way we work.
From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy
“HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.”


Slack Blog
Welcome to the official Slack blog. Explore our latest product news, research on the future of work, and tips for using Slack to be more productive.


The Psychology of a Billion-Dollar Enterprise App: Why Is Slack So Habit-Forming?
Slack isn’t just another office collaboration app. The company has been called, “the fastest-growing workplace software ever.” Recent press…

How to make Slack less bad for you | Robert Heaton
Slack claim to be in the business of "making your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive". We’re about to be cynical, so let’s acknowledge that this claim is probably at least par...
How Slack and Discord became tools for worker revolt
Lots of tech worker movements got their start on Slack and Discord, even if the creators of those apps would rather not talk about it.

Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications | Dave Cheney
Full disclosure: my employer makes a Slack alternative. All my concerns about the use of Slack type chat services apply equally to its competitors, including my employer’s.
What happened when this tech company stopped using Slack on Fridays - Fast Company
The social media platform wanted to see if they can be more focused and productive when there aren't endless Slack notifications.

Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
This blog post was published on November 1, 2015. It might be out of date, have broken images or links, or simply contain bad ideas and opinions that didn't stand the test of time. Please read generously!
Is Slack the new LMS?
Is Slack the new LMS? I’m glad to hear the words Slack and learning in the same sentence. Because I think with a few adjustments Slack could easily become the best LMS (Learning Manage System) …

Slack's rapid growth slows as it hits 1.25M paying work chatters | TechCrunch
Slack is still growing fast, about 33% in daily users and paid seats in the last 5 months. But not as fast as before, when it saw 50% DAU growth and 63%

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory
The internet is not a dumptruck and neither am I
Slack is work chat's runaway train, raises $200M at $3.8B | TechCrunch
The Slack rocketship won't slow down. The business messaging startup has raised $200 million at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation, the company confirms

Excited for this! Just today I met with an open science builder who told me that he thinks "Slack for science" could be a killer app... Just imagine the potential for a Slack for science that also interoperates with the full atproto stack 🚀
Erlend Sogge Heggen
Developed by @meri.garden, sponsored by @cosmik.network on behalf of the @atproto.science Roomy community, we present to you: Cross-space federation of channels 💞