Slack

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “the fix wasn't a fancy tool, it was a single Slack notification whenever login frequency tanked or someone kept coming back to pricing. Took a few hours to wire up and caught the next at-risk customer before they left.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-07-31

• “I find the conversation half happens on Slack, and then continues in a Zoom meeting, and then the comment on the Notion doc is out of date”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-23

• “switched from Slack to a Discourse forum, so support and discussions can be on the web instead of hidden away”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-17

• “promotes bad behaviour, as it encourages people to just Slack each other PR links all day long, fighting for each other's attention on a limited canvas on our displays and oftentimes just giving false sense of urgency”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “Slack screen sharing works when I share my screen twice, and then Slack sometimes crashes”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-20

• “rotating Slack tokens, choosing between Socket Mode and HTTP”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “Slack bot already proven useful digging out info. Slack also supports kanban so probably can replace jira/asana/etc for documenting system.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-07

• “damn annoying having to constantly check my phone for new slack messages”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-03

• “Slack wins for every single use case _except_ video and audio (where Zoom or Webex are the only games in town), hands down.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-16

• “I'm blown away at what it can do with the context it has on you and your teams from slack”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-15

• “Moved my company from Slack to self-hosted Zulip after Salesforce unilaterally decided to transfer our account to Alibaba Cloud”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-02-10

• “I've used both Slack and Teams and if you're using MS365, then Teams is absolutely the better option.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-02-03

• “We barely held on to Slack, which is only used (albeit heavily) by a few engineers and product folks now”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-20

• “What kept us on slack is the external partners who are on slack. This is a bigger deal than you might think.”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2026-01-18

• “Slack doesn't have spam coming from outside my company, and any "apps" that "helpfully" bother me can be silenced easily.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-02

• “When Slack made it possible for organizations to read DMs of members in ~2017, we made a public commitment to never do that for Hack Clubbers unless legally compelled”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-19

• “Slack constantly forgets my credentials and i need to go through a whole dance of logging in, proving i'm human by clicking bicycles, having it email some code. Pretty much every day.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-11-15

• “Slack, Teams, confluence, jira, etc all open a pdf in a in-browser preview thing. Then if you try scrolling, it makes the PAGE contents bigger, but does NOT zoom into the pdf. Who thought of this? Who thought it was a good idea? Never have I wanted to open a preview of the pdf.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-11-04

• “even a Slack Huddle, something that's not even the core of Slack's function, is better than anything one gets with MS Teams”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-21

• “The way slack stacks windows within the app so it's hard to find the right one”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-10-15

• “Slack's UI lets you view these fields, but to actually update them? You're writing curl commands or Python scripts. And god help you if you need to update 50 users.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-06

• “Slack came to us with a 2 day notice; pay more now or pay a lot more later. We asked if we could reduce the number of users and they said no, if you change anything then you have to take the new pricing for double the current price. The whole thing was super sleazy.”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2025-09-18

• “I much prefer working with slack and google meet like I did at my last job.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-09-09

• “I dont have a great way to get things from slack into it - manually copying all the text/attachments/url is super annoying”

  NEGATIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2025-08-11

• “I already have Slack open all day and don't want to have YetAnotherWindowOpen”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-11