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

1. Article should be filtered to remove non-sence advertisement sentences or arrange facts between chapters. For example, at start:
   • Slack is a team collaboration tool co-founded by Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, and Serguei Mourachov. Move down to Authors chapter.
   • 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.
   • Slack was launched in August 2013 - to History
   • and signed up 8000 customers within 24 hours of launch - Move bottom to "Interesting fact"
2. There is no place for company lies stats in article about software.
3. All advantages should be sorted and balanced with disadvantages
4. There is need for fair comparison with another solutions and products, instead of proofless references in vain.

185.5.42.3 (talk) 13:06, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

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

Requested move 24 August 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 01:24, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Slack (software) → Slack
• Slack → Slack (disambiguation)Slack (disambiguation)

– This is the primary topic by usage. The platform gets over three-quarters of pageviews of every topic on the disambiguation page (first ten here), with 5.7 times the pageviews of next highest article, which is its parent company Slack Technologies. It also gets over 80% of identifiable clickthroughs out of the disambiguation page, over ten times the clickthroughs of the next highest topic, Float (project management). It is "highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought" for the term "Slack". As an aside, please keep in mind that the primary topic is neither what first comes to your mind, nor is it the dictionary definition. Only encyclopedic topics should be factored in when judging the primary topic. Specific subjects can be considered the primary topic for fairly common words, such as Windows, Often, and Excel. Ladtrack (talk) 00:25, 24 August 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. Thanks! —1isall (talk | contribs) 00:59, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

• Weak oppose, not convinced the DAB isn't primary in this case.--Ortizesp (talk) 12:53, 24 August 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose Tension (physics) is an alternate primary topic by longterm significance. Identical situation to Apple vs Apple Inc.. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 23:37, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

  The difference here is that apple is an actual article. Here, verbatim, is every piece of information about slack mentioned in the tension article: "Zero tension is slack." That's it. That's what we're comparing the communications platform to. Not quite apples, is it? Ladtrack (talk) 00:46, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

  Slack is the opposite of tension, but the article technically concerns both. It's splitting hairs to say that the article is "not about slack". ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:50, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

  No, it doesn't. There's four words on slack and over eight hundred on tension. That's not "concerns both". That's barely enough to get a WP:DABMENTION. If there was more content on the page about slackness it would maybe be a legitimate topic but this isn't a topic, this is nothing. You'd legitimately be better off arguing for slacker as an alternate primary topic. Ladtrack (talk) 15:50, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

  I don't think "slack" can be used to describe "slacker". But with regards to the primary disagreement, we will have to agree to disagree here I suppose. I'm not going to fall to my knees in a Walmart parking lot if everyone ends up thinking the software is primary. But I am always highly skeptical when a popular software product/tech company tries to usurp a concept that existed since the dawn of time. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 03:07, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose. Absolutely no primary topic here. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:51, 2 September 2026 (UTC)

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