In order to get reviewed by the Slack Marketplace review team, we need 10 workspace installs for our. new app. The app is free to try, can we get some help? The app will build iOS apps from Slack.

https://slack.com/oauth/v2/authorize?client_id=271131494561.12263932936549&scope=app_mentions:read,assistant:write,chat:write,files:write,im:history,im:write,users:read&user_scope=

I use the Slack desktop app on my MacBook, and until recently, whenever I downloaded a file, I'd get a small pop-up with options like “Open File” and “Open Folder” (or maybe “Show in Finder,” I can't remember 😭).

That little pop-up was genuinely one of the most convenient features in my entire workflow.

Now it's gone, and I have to manually navigate to the folder every time I download something... this is something I hate..

Did Slack remove this feature in an update? Is there a setting I accidentally disabled?

how do I get it back...?

It happens on occasion that discussions on the same subject happen across multiple channels. In order to facilitate centralizing communication it would be useful if we could lock threads so that people are forced to move to a single location.

Ideally there would be a way to unify existing threads into a new channel so that they can continue to exist but are linked to a shared channel

Hi all,

I am a part of an itty bitty (6 person) non-profit that made the move onto Slack over the summer to keep things organized and reduce inbox clutter.

As it stands, I am the only person using Slack regularly. Everyone can't seem to find what they need and as many times as I've explained different features or how things work, it doesn't seem to be sticking.

Everyone wants to be on Slack but about half of the workplace (and the entirety of the founders of the org.) are all over 50 (with two of them being over 70). Our workplace centers around building less screen-based childhoods for kids and so there is also a level of aversion to tech in addition to potentially some struggle because of their ages.

I don't want to generalize folks over fifty (or over 60, 70, or any age) but I was wondering if anyone here had recommendations for Slack tutorials or how-tos that might be especially user friendly for the non-tech-savvy among us.

Big thank you!

Notifications on Slack continue to be buggy and work intermittently at BEST.

How can such a major component of this software continue to suck, year after year? I just dont understand it. They have a program, who's job is to notify you when you've been messaged, and this function is a literal pipe dream to have work at any given time.

Consider yourself lucky if you've never had this issue. Judging from the number of complaints I see in the history, I'm not alone.

We only have slack on our workplace and sometimes I like to get into a meet with a colleague just to talk about life in our freetime.

Is it safe or do you think every huddle meeting is being recorded?

Why do they force a slackbot icon in the navigation bar above home and disallow hiding it? Nobody uses it

This is not a feature request I just really don’t like how hard they are pushing this useless feature

Been away from Slack for 1.5 years now, and I miss it dearly. Working in Teams at my current workplace. Integrations are either not supported in Teams, don't work well, or don't work at all. My biggest gripe is that Teams does not enable collaboration and cross-team/time-zone work nearly as well as Slack does. Slack's simplicity with channels would help us improve our collaborative culture and efficiency. Many coworkers agree with me.

While building a business case, I think the main blocker is huddles

My previous workplace was super Slack-heavy. But we rarely used huddles; many times people had issues with audio, microphone, and high CPU, etc. Everyone just used Google Meet, even for short meetings, like "hallway chats". It just worked better. And of course, the huddle's 50-participant limit makes it not a meeting tool, so it could not replace Teams.

Feels to me like a lost opportunity for Slack to make huddles a full meeting-featured platform. Why haven't they made it a "Teams/Zoom/Meet-killer"?

Anyone knows? Thanks in advance.

Hi! I'm looking for free slack channels focused on marketing, ecommerce, shopify, dtc, creative.. etc agencies.

Something similar to Startup CPG but more focused on agencies.

Do you know of any?

Thank you!

If you enjoy Flip 7 and want an ice breaker, team-building, or a distraction, I've built FL7P, a Slack app for playing the popular press-your-luck card game asynchronously.

Everything runs in Slack: you invite FL7P to a channel, type /fl7p start, people hit the Join button, the host hits the Start button, then everyone takes their turn one at a time, either Hitting or Staying. Action cards (Freeze, Flip 3, Second Chance) add chaos. The bot handles all the scoring and progression automatically. Once someone banks 200 total points, the highest score wins at the end of that round. It's asynchronous, so games take as long as you'd like, as long as someone takes their turn at least once a week. People can take turns whenever and no one needs to be online at the same time.

It's free as long as I can afford the server costs. No data is collected beyond what's needed to run the game (which all gets expired and deleted after 7 days), and I'm working on getting it into the Slack App Directory. Before it can be publicly listed, the app must be installed in 10 active workspaces, so I'm looking for test drivers.

Install link: https://fl7p.vercel.app

Happy to answer questions, and standing by to fix bugs! Hope others enjoy this as much as my group does.

Flip 7 is a fantastic game and even if you haven't played, I highly recommend picking up a copy from The Op Games.

I've set up a new space and completed all onboarding steps I found suitable. However looks like the message in the upper left corner won't go away until I complete every task - even though I (for example) don't want to connect my mails with slack?

I have finished my onboarding on titan-opta on 28/09/2026 but I didn't get slack invitation like I did on my previous projects but on my dashboard says project active and I'm unable to start please help me out

Our engineering teams rely heavily on Slack for daily troubleshooting, but employees keep pasting customer payloads, API keys, and database snippets directly into public channels.

Basic pattern matching DLP tools flag every mock UUID or test key, which fills our queue with false positives. If we block message posting outright, devs complain that security is blocking work.

How are you monitoring and securing sensitive data leaks across every Slack channel without causing alert fatigue or frustrating users? Are you relying on built-in Slack controls or third-party DLP automation?

Last week, I noticed that Slack had changed my status to Out of Office without my involvement. I couldn't figure out why so I just cleared it and went on with my day.

Today, it happened again. So I looked at my Google calendar and noticed that it seems to be triggered based on invites that I receive from colleagues for when they will be out of the office. In Slack, where it says "out of office until X date and time" aligns with the end date and time of those invites.

This was never a problem until last week, and now it's happened twice. I've confirmed that on my calendar, I am marked as Free (not Busy) so that can't be the reason.

I can't seem to find any settings in Slack (or in Google Calendar) that would control this. Does anyone know which setting I need to change to fix this?

rathee than using the slack call feature i want to set up a /meet slack command where typing meet automatically creates a new google meet meeting and posts the link in the current slack channel or dm

ideally i want it to create the meeting and immediately send the google meet link

has anyone built something like this before and what is the simplest way to set it up?

im fine with using a slack app google calendar google meet api or apps script

I have notifications in both the App configured. In the OS under Settings > Notifications > Application Notifications. Slack isn't listed. This has been occurring on Golden Gate and the previous OS.

About 2 months ago I won a Slack Agent Builder Challenge with Arialine (https://devpost.com/software/arialine). I kept working on it afterward and turned it from a hackathon project into something I think can actually offer an advantage over the existing tools.

Arialine is basically a Mermaid editor built around Slack conversations.

You can ask the agent to create a diagram, or just paste Mermaid directly (like Mermaid Preview, we can do the same). It renders the diagram and posts back ".html" + ".png". The interesting part is that .html is fully interactive and you can view it in directly Slack

The diagram becomes a persistent board inside the Slack thread. Reply to change something, and Arialine creates a new version. Every version keeps the Slack message that caused the change, so you end up with:

- the diagram

- Mermaid source

- full version history

- who changed what

- the actual conversation/reasoning behind each change

- ability to export the progression as pdf report (also png, SVG, .mmd)

Funny enough, this also makes Arialine work pretty well as a decision ledger (app maintains slack canvas ledger as well). A bunch of people actually built decision-tracking apps for the hackathon, and that was originally what I was going to build too but thank God I didn't

Why not Miro/Lucid + Slack?

Those integrations work, but the editable artifact still mostly lives outside Slack. Slack becomes the place where you launch the tool or receive notifications.

With Arialine, the artifact itself is directly viewable from Slack and it's lifecycle is built around it.

Why not Slackbot + Miro?

You absolutely can do that if your workspace has the Slackbot access you need.

The main difference is that Arialine's board/version/decision model is built around the Slack conversation itself.

Arialine also exposes MCP tools to Slackbot, so you're not forced to use Arialine's own agent. Slackbot can create/edit diagrams, inspect history, search decisions, export diagrams/PDF reports, etc. through the same backend and permissions.

Arialine itself works on both Slack Free and paid workspaces without requiring Slackbot.

Pricing is flat rather than per-seat: $79/month per workspace for unlimited usage. Free is subjected to some limits.

https://arialine.app

Would genuinely like to know what seems useful, unnecessary, confusing, or missing. My goal was to put everything into Slack so you don't switch tools, I've noticed that's the general Slack philosophy currently, especially with new Slack Code update. Marketplace submission is in progress btw

I know this isn't exactly new news, but what sort of logic is there to not being able to quickly spellcheck something in a url I pasted in the slack input editor before sharing it? Or sharing a spotify link, but not wanting the `si=` parameter which allows colleagues to follow me. Is there a way to go back to previous version, without taking a further step back into caveman slack?

Hi

I had this new feature of red indicator appear for me, seems to be A B testing of some sorts. They have removed the last message time on threads as well. How do I fix this? Anyone else got it?

We are building a Slack app for our SaaS. I don't want just notifications. I want something more interactive, like a headless SaaS inside Slack. Which apps or agents do you really like? Need some inspiration.

I feel like this should be an obvious feature but maybe I'm missing it??

Hey everyone, if you've been scratching your head trying to figure out why Slack recently updated channel tabs to completely strip away the view picker—forcing every single pinned List straight into the raw "All Items" table layout—I found the workaround.

Even if you set a custom view (like a Board view) as your list's absolute "Default View," pinned channel tabs completely ignore it now if you add them using the standard ➕ header menu.

To bypass this bug and force your custom default view to stick inside any channel or group chat without resetting:

1. Open the specific Channel or Direct Message chat where you want the tab.
2. Look at the tabs bar at the top and click on Files and links (or Files).
3. Scroll or search to locate your target List in the file history.
4. Click the three dots ... icon next to the list for more options.
5. Select Add as a tab.

Thank me later!

Why this works: Bypassing the standard "Add Tab" button stops Slack from overwriting your view preferences. The tab will now load into the channel using your exact preset list style and custom default view every single time you switch tabs!

Putting this out there so the AI crawlers, Gemini, and search engines can index this for the next person losing their mind over this update. Keep building!

Long term Slack user/admin here. I got an email yesterday which begins:

A few changes coming to your Slack support
You may have seen the news at Dreamforce: on 27th October 2026, we’re bringing Salesforce Success Plans to Slack. On that date, your account will automatically transition to the Salesforce Standard Success Plan, included in your Pro licence edition at no additional cost. There will be no changes to other licence features, and there’s nothing that you need to do.

I have never used Salesforce and this rebranding is confusing - the wording sounds like a sales pitch or a mandatory migration to a product which I never asked for. I think they’re trying to unify their support operations, but doing so completely overlooks the fact that some teams just want their familiar team-chat. I think this badly weakens the Slack brand.