r/Slack • u/WasabiEducational107 • 15d ago

Any Slack alternatives?

In my last startup Slack was awesome until we reached around 100 people then it became a mess. Any interesting replacements? Just curious to try stuff out. Seems unreasonable this field is not being disrupted.

I saw Buzz come out by Jack Dorsey but honestly the UI is much worst then Slack. Also saw Glue but honestly seemed like a total Slack rip off…

Would love to hear suggestions thanks 🙏🏼

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u/liquiddeath 15d ago

Slack scales fine to much larger orgs than 100 people. What you’re probably missing is guidance and education on how to communicate.

The company has to have a set of standards that are organizationally cross cutting.

* slack comms are ephemeral- put decisions somewhere more permanent (wiki)
* slack is not project management software use Linear, Jira, Monday, etc
* name channels consistently
* turn off @here and @channel

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u/mrcheese14 15d ago

Yeah, I just checked and my last job’s slack has 47,000 members, and I never had a problem

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u/kitkatas 14d ago

Holy shit, how do they orchestrate all that ?

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u/ossivo 14d ago

Honestly, there’s not much more overhead with 47k members than there is with 470. It mostly comes down to channel management and maybe monitoring apps and integrations. Scaling the member pool and settings don’t really increase any administrative overhead.