slack

  • How to Prepare Now for Slack’s Next Outage

    How to Prepare Now for Slack’s Next Outage

    When Slack goes down, it’s a big deal. In 2019, the workplace communications software company announced it had over 10 million daily users — and as workers shifted to home office settings amid the pandemic the following year, needing increasing ways to stay connected with colleagues, we can safely guess that number went up. Slack,…


  • Use Slack ‘Clips’ to Avoid Brief, Pointless Meetings

    Use Slack ‘Clips’ to Avoid Brief, Pointless Meetings

    If remote work has taught us anything, it’s that many of our meetings are unnecessary and overly complicated, especially if teams are spread across time zones. Unless collaboration is essential to the agenda, we can often get everything we need in just a few minutes on our own time. Slack has been working on a…


  • Update Your Slack Passwords Now, Android Users

    Update Your Slack Passwords Now, Android Users

    Over the weekend, some Slack Android users received a seemingly random email urging them to update their passwords. The email claims a bug in the Android app incorrectly logged password data as plaintext that could be easily scooped up by hackers.