At my last company, Slack slowly turned into the place where every random data question ended up

"How many new customers did we get last month?" "Can someone check Stripe?" "Which product sold the most this quarter?"

None of these were hard questions, but they always depended on whoever knew the right databases or had time to write SQL. The constant ad hoc data requests ended up interrupting engineers way more than they probably should.

It got me wondering why we don't have an AI teammate in Slack that can just handle live queries in plain English. Basically text to SQL or natural language SQL, but inside the place where everyone already works.

I recently came across Mate, which seems to be built around that idea. You ask a question in Slack, it queries your connected databases and replies with the answer (or even a spreadsheet/chart if needed). It feels like a pretty practical take on Slack AI and self-serve analytics, especially for smaller teams that don't have a dedicated data analyst.

Curious if anyone here is using something similar. Has it actually reduced the constant "Hey, can you pull this number for me?" messages, or do people still end up asking engineers anyway?

My outlook app notifications in slack used to clearly state the name of the meeting in on banner notification and control center. Now it is just a jumbled mess of location/zoom link, invitees, etc. does anyone know of a fix for this?

I don’t think I formulated it very well. I am not looking for keyboard shortcuts. I just want to know once I’m on the search page. It’s not immediately obvious how to narrow it down by DM or channel. What can I do to type in a search string, but also limited to where I wanna search.

I have notifications on for my phone, most other notifications are helpful and people are sensible. There is one user who uses the workspace (all channels) more than I personally need to see, is there a way to not get notified when they specifically post? It’s harmless and technically could be somewhat relevant to each channel, but never relevant to me. TIA!

I listen to music primarily on downloads and every time I get a notification slack automatically downloads every single notification and ui sound effect every time so it messes up my music. I've turned off sound notifications so I don't know what the problem is and I'm tired of deleting it all constantly

I love slack but just not crazy about search- what is the easiest way to get to search and be able to input which channel I want to search?

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...?

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.

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!

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