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SlackSoftware

by Salesforce

Who uses, recommends or left Slack, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

3 people

Tobias Sjösten
Swedish software developer writing about tooling and working from home at seastone.io.
loved

My favorite platform for chat, doubling as an excellent center for notifications of various kinds.

His /uses page, a walk through the hardware, software and services he works with.

2025-01-02·seastone.io ↗

Monica Dinculescu
Software engineer; worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google and writes about the web at meowni.ca.
uses

I internet in Chrome, email in Inbox, slideaphone in Keynote, work-chat in Slack, friend-chat on Hangouts/Adium, tweet about squirrels in Tweetbot, and verb all the things in real life.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: her laptop, camera and the small Mac apps she relies on.

2015-09-22·usesthis.com ↗

Who disliked it

Ben Kuhn
Engineer and writer; CTO of Wave, later at Anthropic, blogging on focus, management and engineering at benkuhn.net.
disliked

A special dishonorable mention goes to Slack, which can easily suck away a quarter of your time without you noticing. If you use Slack and you haven’t disabled the “unread messages” badge, stop reading this post and do it now.

His round-up of the tools and settings he uses to protect his attention. The post is dated only "August 2020"; day set to the 1st.

2020-08-01·benkuhn.net ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.