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One for the team
On February 12th of last year, we launched Slack to the public. One year in, here we are: with more than 500,000 daily users in more than 60,000 teams. Every month, Slack users collectively spend over...
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Better Sidebars For All: The Color-Blindness Edition
For our color-blind friends, a couple of themes people on our team here at Slack have found useful.If you’ve never tried changing your sidebar colors before, or didn’t know it was possible… Surprise!...
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Press the Start Button: Slack for Windows Has Arrived
Every week, hundreds of thousands of people all around the world sign into Slack from a web browser on Windows. Each of them is (we imagine) yearning for something more. More than 30% of our users run...
View ArticleMarch 2015 Security Incident and the Launch of Two Factor Authentication
We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile information. We have since blocked this unauthorized access and made additional changes to...
View ArticleThe Regrettable Reason Why SSO Users Have To Be Forcibly Signed-out on Mobile
You probably heard that we announced a security incident earlier today. If you didn’t see the blog post, you will have seen the emails. At the same time, we released Two Factor Authentication. This...
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Channel Information: New, Improved and Shinier
Have you ever wished there was more information about the channel you’re in, right at your finger tips? OK. Reload. It is true!Previously, there was a single little button you could click to see how...
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Integrations 101: Adding Twitter to Slack
The more you bring the tools you already use into Slack, the more powerful Slack becomes (kind of like Voltron). With more than 80 integrated services (and counting!) that’s a whole lot of power. But...
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Picking up Slack at Panic
Before the legendary Panic found Slack, they used a variety of communication tools like instant messages and email, and tried several collaboration apps. The shortcomings were obvious: too much email,...
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New, Small and Shiny: Introducing Slack for Apple Watch
The newest, smallest member of the Slack family has arrived: Slack for Apple Watch. No longer will you be left tapping your wrist in vain: now doing so will enable you to quickly and easily create,...
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Slack Inside the MacArthur Lab
When parents of children suffering from muscle diseases contact Dr. Daniel MacArthur’s lab, it’s often after they’ve exhausted their options. The MacArthur Lab specializes in identifying neuromuscular...
View ArticleSlack and Transparency
As a workplace communication platform, we are frequently asked about legal and government requests for user data. People are especially interested in our process for evaluating these requests and how...
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Several People Are Helping
If you’ve ever contacted Slack for support, it may have seemed as if your question was answered by just one person. Truth of the matter is, it was actually answered by every single person at Slack. Or...
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The Slack Variety Pack
We love podcasts. We love them a lot. Our team’s #podcast channel buzzes with recommendations and discussions, and anyone who loves the same podcasts we do might have noticed we’ve been sponsoring some...
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A Beginner's Guide to Your First Bot
While Slack already features dozens of hooks into various outside services, many teams have specific needs that could be met by other useful services out there. But if you’re not a seasoned programmer,...
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Integrations 101: Getting Started with IFTTT Recipes
IFTTT is a popular app that helps automate tasks between two services or programs, letting you trigger events either on demand or when you complete a task in apps. Slack was recently chosen as IFTTT’s...
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Slack for Android 2.0
We’re proud to announce the release of a better, faster, and all around Android-ier Slack for Android! We’ve been hard at work on this new app for many months and we’re so excited to share it with you...
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How a High School Robotics Team Uses Slack
A few weeks ago we got a fascinating email at Slack:I’m Lauren Egts, a member of The Fighting Unicorns, an all-girls robotics team from Cleveland, Ohio. We competed at the world championships this year...
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Integrations 101: Connecting to Dropbox
As part of our continuing series on Integrations, for this outing we’re looking at popular cloud-based file storage provider Dropbox. Dropbox is wonderfully easy to use, a cinch to install anywhere,...
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722 ways to say “I got your message”
Since the launch of Slack, people have asked for a way to “fave” or “like” messages — a simple, public way to acknowledge or approve a message. We already had the ability to star messages, (which is...
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