Slack - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024

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#2 Desktop Product Product of the Year

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What is Slack?

The collaboration hub that brings people, information, and tools together to get work done.

Team collaboration software

Maker shoutouts

Makers get only 3 shoutouts per launch

I use it every workday to stay in touch. I work at a fully remote company so it's critical. But it's also critical to be able to turn it off or mute it. Slack gets that.

Teamday

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Fostering work friendships in remote teams

33 upvotes

2mo ago

Slack is direct messaging made better for businesses. We love it but we reached the limit of how social it can get. What would be Messenger without Facebook? Let's add a social layer to Slack: Teamday

Casc

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Access and scale company-wide knowledge in seconds

62 upvotes

2mo ago

We love Slack and its granular and meticulous API interface that allowed us to interface Casc with all the features we had in mind and many more coming soon!

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Recent launches

Slack Canvas

Get ready for Slack canvas, a new surface in your digital HQ, where teams can curate, organise and share mission-critical resources. Paired with the Slack platform, anyone can customise a canvas with time-saving automations that move work forward.

1yr ago

Open source browser add-on

What is it about? 🤔 It's an add-on for high-level online security with real-time data collaboration via an API. Let's create together the add-on that will make the web the most secure in the world, it's not a joke, it's a challenge.

2yr ago

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Questions about Slack

Frequently asked questions

Is Slack Secure?

By default, Slack encrypts data at rest and data in transit for all of our customers.

We further protect your data with tools like Slack Enterprise Key Management (Slack EKM), audit logs, and integrations with top data loss prevention (DLP) providers.

More information can be found here.

Whats so great about Slack?

Slack's meteoric rise in popularity can be attributed to two major factors: It does it's job exceptionally well, and people enjoy using the app itself. From a functionality standpoint, Slack's strengths are that it:

Facilitates communication in the workplace
Helps teams communicate collaborate across remote distances
Enables and encourages the sharing of documents, images and other assets across teams

From a design standpoint, Slack is popular because it appeals to all demographics with its visually appealing design, smooth API's and workflows, and it's contemporary and tech-friendly.

What is Slack?

Slack is a messaging app for business.

Used by 10 million daily active users from more than 600,000 organizations, located in more than 150 countries, Slack (or “Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge“) offers multiple instant messaging options to keep teams in communication.