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App Service · Other software · 19 mentions · 3 subreddits · discussed in r/sysadmin, r/webdev, r/digitalnomad

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Pros

  • A slack workspace with just DMs and channels fast and is still the best option out there for business, and is a hell of a lot better than teams.
  • Slack is the best current business chat platform, this has strong 'old man yelling at clouds' energy
  • eg. strict schedule, private home office, sit/stand desk, love using slack and other things for asynchronous communication etc.
  • Basically, for anything chat related, we use Slack. Chatting with another person, or a support channel, that happens in Slack.
  • Parent context: What does Slack offer in terms of chats that MS Teams doesn't offer? Or how is it great? Reply: It’s more that it’s just more efficient at realtime chat and threaded conversations vs teams being wasteful on real estate, b...

Cons

  • You saw someone's quiet, passive, mostly-offline task/progress tracker sitting peacefully on a desk and thought, "_What this needs is more Slack notifications_."
  • Slack is just the worst – and I've used a BBS and 14.4k modem... It's fundamentally broken and built using a worst-practice approach to application development.
  • He said, "I need you to download the new versions of Slack with has the license key because we're switching over to a licensed version."
  • Do not create a slack channel for support.
  • It’s very tiring to have to pay so much for basically a very limited effort from salesforce / slack.

Sentiment

9 positive (47%) · 1 mixed (5%) · 9 negative (47%)

Trust + time weighted score: -8% · raw score 0%

What redditors said (10 of 19)

You saw someone's quiet, passive, mostly-offline task/progress tracker sitting peacefully on a desk and thought, "_What this needs is more Slack notifications_."
negative · u/w****e · r/webdev · comment · Nov 15, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
A slack workspace with just DMs and channels fast and is still the best option out there for business, and is a hell of a lot better than teams.
positive · u/c****d · r/sysadmin · comment · Jul 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Slack is the best current business chat platform, this has strong 'old man yelling at clouds' energy
positive · u/w****a · r/sysadmin · comment · Jul 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Slack is just the worst – and I've used a BBS and 14.4k modem... It's fundamentally broken and built using a worst-practice approach to application development.
negative · u/H****1 · r/sysadmin · Jul 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
He said, "I need you to download the new versions of Slack with has the license key because we're switching over to a licensed version."
mixed · u/p****x · r/sysadmin · comment · Feb 27, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Do not create a slack channel for support.
negative · u/s****s · r/sysadmin · comment · Feb 22, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
It’s very tiring to have to pay so much for basically a very limited effort from salesforce / slack.
negative · u/b****k · r/sysadmin · comment · Feb 13, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
To implement SSO in our Slack account, we’ll have to upgrade our plan from $4 to $14 per user per month.
negative · u/P****9 · r/sysadmin · Feb 13, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I'm sick of Slack, meetings, all of it.
negative · u/c****d · r/webdev · Feb 3, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
No one is going to make the move from teams at $2 a user to slack at $15 per user.
negative · u/p****y · r/sysadmin · comment · Jan 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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