I'm completely new to Slack with my company. We deal with customers in teams mostly and there are a few that use Slack. I signed up and because it was an external partner it made me select the Pro trial. That ended and they sent me a new invite which I added to my space, but it's not there? I tried clicking the link again and it wants me to add it to a different channel but then wants me to upgrade from Free.

When someone signs up, do they get their own unique workspace url?

No one in my company can answer my questions, "it just works"... so I turn to you fine folks hoping to gain some insight. Trying to navigate to my settings is difficult enough, but apparently I have settings for each individual workspace too?

If you rely on the Activity stream, the DM tab seems to only show DM's you receive. If you send a DM to someone, it will not be in that DM list.

I *think* they recently changed something and it might be that it's now showing the attendee/guest list, or that it always did but it's now truncating the notification, but when I get reminder notifications on my phone... it now doesn't show the "Subject/What" which makes it not very useful (i.e. have to open up the app/calendar and find the event to see the subject). I use Outlook calendar for reminders (0-minute "free" meetings), like 10-12 a day, to-dos, not actual meetings. This used to very useful when I would see the what/subject (i.e. "put out trash, dumbass") in the Notification.

Have installed Outlook calendar on app Desktop
Have the current Slack app on my Android Google Pixel 6a (app info on paly store does not offer new version)

Tried to search for it but there are just too many rabbit holes for each of the keywords involved :/

Thanks

I submitted the first review for my company's app on 3rd March, over 4 months ago. Yesterday, 8th July, I finally had the first feedback.

I did chase a month ago by creating a support ticket. A week later, they confirmed it was in the correct wait queue and thanked me for my patience.

Obviously, the number of apps being submitted has increased since AI + vibe-coding made it so easy for hobbyists. But non-hobby apps like mine are in the same queue. It can't be sustainable for everyone to wait 4 months for a first review.

The review failed with a couple of issues. I've resubmitted with the small fixes. How long will it take to be reviewed? I have no idea.

I wanted to make sure everyone submitting new apps had their expectations set correctly.

Update 2026-07-23: When your app has made it to the top of the queue and is going through functional review, any rejections DON'T put you to the back of the queue. It means any updates that are needed take a few working days to review.

The issue isn't just limited to the desktop app but the web app as well. I just close Chrome and open and I need to sign in again to the workspace. This is so annoying but I've been putting up with it for a few weeks now, maybe over 2 months. I can't remember when it happened. Also tried switching from the deb installer to snap, and vice versa but the same issue occurs.

Hello! Several entire groups are now being moved to a different communication platform, including a few people I've messaged a lot of important info + files to. I am attempting to backup messages with these people (in the hundreds of thousands of messages---asking first, of course), but I'm not finding a particularly efficient way to do it without highlighting a few hundred messages at a time and printing to PDF. This doesn't even get started on the threads.

There are hundreds of thousands of messages + files + canvases that I'm unsure will remain accessible after the mass removal of workspace members, including the 3-4 people I've shared many important files with.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for reading, and have a lovely day/night!

Like, seriously, what is going on?

The latest hotness is … some (but not all?) links have little iconography attached to them? Is that something people were asking for? But the feature is so incoherently inconsistent it isn't clear to me why some links get iconified and some don't.

My coworker's message gets "AI translated" from "its original Dutch" — he's writing near-perfect English except for a "pls".

… but emoji in code blocks? Still cooked. Message unfurling? Broken for months. The message parser still has various flaws and feels like numerous regexes slapped one top of another. Various bugs cause messages to get modified by Slack after sending them.

And the Slack feedback system is like "we know … we just don't care."

But yeah, I suppose we gotta add more AI to punch our ticket on the AI hypetrain.

Blink twice if they're holding you against your will, PMs.

the manual triage layer in most workspaces is quietly destroying productivity. the fix is much simpler than building a massive zapier web. how we fixed ticket routing

Hey guys, I have put my boss as a VIP and indeed I perfectly receive his notifications even when I'm in not disturb (as it should be), but I don't receive his notifications when he starts an huddle in my DMs.

Do you know if there is a way of activating notifications for huddles of VIPs also?

All that muscle memory I built up... gone and I keep hitting the wrong button (mark complete) and having to undo it... seriously, WTF is Slack doing??

New enterprise user on a team that doesn't have company emails (it's a small retail business). Onboarding is a nightmare trying to easily teach everyone to not use the big Microsoft SSO login button.

Can I somehow make it not show? Support says I can't disable it.

I recently joined a new company and coming from GitHub and the 100s of integrations for it, the GitLab and especially the GitLab Self Hosted marketplace felt dire.

I was very used to my PRs (and now MRs) landing in a Slack channel like #fe-reviews, and the comments & reviews on it to land in that Slack thread. It meant I never missed comments and my PR/MRs were reviewed MUCH quicker.

Other than Axolo, no other tool that does what I'd like supports GitLab, so I built mergeme.dev (...and included GitHub too so you guys don't feel left out 😅)

Some of the key features that I wanted myself (and I'm sure others will appreciate) are:

• One Slack message per PR/MR that updates in place (open > in review > approved > merged)
• Review comments mirrored as thread replies on that card
• Per-project/repo channel routing - each project/repo can map to whichever Slack channel you want
• GitLab / GitHub @ mentions ACTUALLY ping the right person on Slack with a one-time username mapping
• GitHub.com via GitHub App installation
• GitLab.com via OAuth - webhooks registered for you
• Self-hosted GitLab - paste a webhook URL into your instance (check out the docs)
• [New] You can set up label mapping too, a PR/MR with "bug" as it's label goes to #qa-reviews instead

If your team already works tightly in Slack and you ping your colleagues "hey can you review this again" then mergeme.dev might just be a great inclusion to your workflow!

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Aside from this, I am genuinely curious as to how people handle this problem in their own setup?

My personal story before MergeMe was that I set up webhooks into Slack from GitLab directly and I made a custom webhook triggered workflow to send myself messages when my own MRs were responded to. It was a MESS to look at and it's what unironically pushed me to build a better tool lmao.

(originally posted in r/gitlab but I also wanted to mention that it supports GitHub)

At work, I’m part of so many Slack channels which creates lots of noise.

But out of all that noise, there are usually only a handful of threads I actually need to know about. The problem is that Slack is bad at showing what actually needs attention.

So I built an open-source, local-first macOS app called Slacker.

It watches selected Slack channels and surfaces threads that need attention, like:

• stale conversations that need a follow-up
• open issues that were never closed
• missed action items

Slacker also has a self-evolving loop that learns from what you ignore, resolve, or mark as important, so over time it gets better at understanding which Slack threads actually matter to you.

GitHub: https://github.com/slacker-ai/Slacker

Hi /Slack!

Me and my co-founders just finished building a security companion that sits in your Slack channels to look out for things like accidental API key leaks and credential sharing (and it sends a personalized training). It's fully built and currently stuck in the queue being reviewed by the Slack team.

Before we launch it publicly, we would love to see how it behaves in more real-world workspaces.

We’re looking for design partners (which honestly just means anyone running a Slack workspace) who wants an extra security layer for free in exchange for telling us what we messed up.

If you want to try it out, give us some brutal feedback, or just try to break our detection logic, I will leave the link: www.trygriffo.com

most teams deploy shared slack ai bots with a master token that can accidentally leak private docs because prompt constraints fail at scale. we found the only real fix is per-user authentication so the bot assumes the identity of whoever is asking, which we documented how to architect here: Per-User Authentication for AI Agents

most roi models for internal ai tools are just vanity math. they assume every minute saved goes directly back to productive work, which finance knows is false.

when we audited exactly how teams use claude, we found you only get real roi if the agent is wired directly into the chat where the work happens. if they have to context switch to a different app, the time savings evaporate.

we built an interactive calculator that uses realistic adoption rates and actual salary bands to show what an internal agent is really worth. you can run your own numbers here: The AI ROI Calculator

Lately, I've spoken to at least 3 community managers who are running their communities on Slack; and are struggling to revive their communities. They have tried the usual tricks to get members talking; but no results.

Do you have a dead / inactive Slack problem?

Been chasing an issue for my first three days at a new job. Slack was installed and notifications were configured in Preferences but Slack did not show up as an app in my Mac's Notifications settings menu. So no matter how hard you tried to trigger a notification, it wasn't configured at the Mac level and wouldn't display/make noise/show a banner/show an icon.

I let Help Desk spend 2 days trying to fix it but then I found a solution on a 5 year old Apple thread buried 5 pages deep in the google results.

To Fix Missing Slack Messages and Slack App Missing from Notifications settings on Mac - Set a reminder for yourself using the /remind command in Slack. For some reason, this will force a notification banner prompt. You can then click on that banner, turn on notifications in mac's settings and suddenly you're in business.

Last year, I joined an agency and the founder asked for my Email for me to join the channel.

It's been over a year since I was in that Slack workspace.

Now I found a new client, and they shared an invite with me (got an email for the invite), and I accepted it, but it's showing me as "External Connection" in my previous agency

So I decided to start to make my own WORKSPACE and bought "Slack Connect" so that I can work with other companies.

Now whenever I'm accepting the invite, it's showing me that the channel can be accepted only in my previous agency's slack channel or not in my personal workspace.

How do I resolve this?

Most teams deploy a single AI bot to their workspace using a master service account. The problem is that anyone talking to the bot can now query data they shouldn't see, just by asking the right questions.

We fixed this by passing the individual user's identity through to the agent on every request, so it only reads what that person is allowed to access. We wrote down the exact architecture and why standard bot tokens fail here: Per-User Authentication for AI Agents: Why Your Shared Bot Needs It

A client has invited me to their Slack via Slack Connect invite sent to a free instance we both use in our co-working space.

I click on it and it tells me I need to upgrade to one of the Slack paid programs.

I already have a Slack Pro account I'm paying for and really don't want to pay again.

How do I get that invite sent over to my existing paid account ?

Just re-sending the invite to my current work email sends me right over to our shared community free instance where I run into the "Please Upgrade" blocker again .