Talk:Slack (software)

Team communication tool
Is 'team communication tool' the best word to describe it? a better word might be 'collaboration software'? This does seem like an emergent type of team communication tool. OR drohowa (talk) 17:44, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Nope, this IS a communication tool. There are other tools for (software creating) collaboration, and this one is not it. Think of Slack like a business/company version of Skype with leaner GUI, chat "rooms" (groups) and a much better search function+Dropbox/etc integration. Emails and IM chat over other channels can be made almost unnecessary with Slack. :) Naki (talk) 12:31, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

This article reads like a commercial. Is that allowed on the wiki? When did this become commercial.

Stop advertisement please
185.5.42.3 (talk) 13:06, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) Article should be filtered to remove non-sence advertisement sentences or arrange facts between chapters. For example, at start:
 * 2) * Slack is a team collaboration tool co-founded by Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, and Serguei Mourachov. Move down to Authors chapter.
 * 3) * Slack began as an internal tool used by their company Tiny Speck in the development of Glitch, a now defunct online game. Move down to History chapter.
 * 4) * Slack was launched in August 2013 - to History
 * 5) * and signed up 8000 customers within 24 hours of launch - Move bottom to "Interesting fact"
 * 6) There is no place for company lies stats in article about software.
 * 7) All advantages should be sorted and balanced with disadvantages
 * 8) There is need for fair comparison with another solutions and products, instead of proofless references in vain.
 * 4. Please name some, then we can compare? :) Naki (talk) 14:23, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, separating a short article into more sections is useless. If the article was larger, then maybe. Naki (talk) 20:35, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Well? Name some? Naki (talk) 14:57, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello..? Naki (talk) 07:00, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * With a tiny bit of research, you would have found mattermost. --176.0.139.81 (talk) 15:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! This deserves a Wiki article. If I get some time, maybe I can create one. If you have the time, feel free to create it yourself. :) Naki (talk) 11:06, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I tried to rebuild features and history in neutral way. First version is live, I will keep touching it every now and then to make it consistent as there's still work to do I believe but I think now it better reflects what Slack is about. Frog4D (talk) 06:49, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Possible Article subject renaming
Should we change it to Slack (SaaS)? I am suggesting that Box (company) be changed too. Sorry if I'm doing this wrong - I've only been contributing for a week. Tedwillett (talk) 05:42, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Found a tool
In reference to


 * "Slack is a cloud-based team collaboration tool co-founded by...":

Can a tool be "founded"? Isn't this reserved for companies, etc.? Wouldn't developed, created, etc. be more appropriate (e.g. created by a company or individuals)? --Mortense (talk) 16:57, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Alternatives
I was going to Wikilink Rocket.Chat and Mattermost from the Alternatives section but they're both currently redlinks. Worth articles of their own? Andrewa (talk) 21:12, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure! If you can write one or both of those, please go ahead. :) Naki (talk) 09:28, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
 * As of Oct 2018, Mattermost has its own article now. :) Thanks to the article creator - Kristbaum. Naki (talk) 11:39, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Alternatives
One section says: "Other alternatives having a similar business model to Slack are...". Surely the business model is just how the company makes money, what this section needs is just to say "Other alternatives are...". Capturts (talk) 14:40, 15 November 2019 (UTC)


 * one alternative way to have this information is to have a separate article comparing alternatives, so Slack is not singled out as one to have alternatives mentioned on its page. Deleting this section removes useful info, not the best choice.

Move to Disambiguate
This term is not appropriate to occupy the heading "Slack (software)" because the term "slack" predates the messaging software and company (now public as ticker symbol $WORK), it refers to the practice of allowing for unknowns in scrum or XP

See Extreme Programming Explained, Beck, Kent, 2004 Addison Wesley 978-0321278654, page 48

See https://explainagile.com/agile/xp-extreme-programming/practices/slack/

This article should be retitled "Slack (software product)" and a new page should occupy "Slack (software practice)"; finally, a disambiguation page should be created for all 3 (software product, company, and software practice) and any other occurrences of entries "slack" on Wikipedia.

this is important for historical preservation as this page now has drowned search results for 'slack' as XP/agile practice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonfb (talk • contribs) 01:10, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Security Incidents
The chapter "Security Incident" is in the introduction, but this is not a key feature. It should be moved to "6 - Criticism".

176.159.48.24 (talk) 08:37, 28 January 2022 (UTC) Thierry