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.
Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
These projects hope to provide not just a free alternative to the popular chat app but beat Slack at its own game by providing features it doesn't have.
Our Experience With Slack
Back in April, all was well with our community of busy adults learning to code. We were communicating using Gitter.im, a GitHub based chatroom system. And yet every day, someone would ask me “Why aren’t your campers using Slack?” I’d considered Slack...
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 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.
We're on Slack! Join us! - Creative Commons
Today we’re excited to announce that we have migrated our real time communications from IRC to Slack.
Slack is the opposite of organizational memory
The internet is not a dumptruck and neither am I
From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy
“HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.”
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
Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, But Google Didn’t Know What It Had
Everyone has been talking about Slack lately. The chat app, which is primarily aimed at offices and productivity, is simple, well designed, fun to use,...
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 It might be out of date, have broken images or links, or simply contain bad ideas and opinions that didn't stand the test of time.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!
Extend Slack with Node.js
It is 2016 and Slack is the new e-mail. For many distributed teams or companies like Auth0, Slack has become the default communication…
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.
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.
Slack is not for me
I began 2018 choosing to log out of Slack. More than a month later, I have yet to log back in.
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%
