Slack Reviews

We use Slack for general communication, conference calls, and sharing screens because we have people working from different countries.

There are 53 people using Slack in our organization.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

It gives you the ability to share your screen and have conference calls. You can also create different channels. You can use it on your PC or on your phone.

We recently had to learn about another program, and somebody had to teach from abroad. They could share their screen, and we were able to have a conference call through that.

Everything has room for improvement, so I think Slack could add additional features without making the solution slower or more difficult to use.

I have been using this solution for a year and a half.

The stability is good. It doesn't matter how many people use it.

Setup is pretty easy.

I would rate this solution 8 out of 10. 

You can use it on your phone, not just on your PC or laptop. It pretty much works the same, and you can do almost everything on your phone.

We used the solution to communicate within the team and with other people outside the company. We only used the solution for chatting.

The solution's most valuable feature is the search functionality, which I can use to search for full text.

The solution’s initial setup is not very easy.

I have been using Slack for two years.

The solution has a very high stability.

I rate the solution’s stability ten out of ten.

Around 40 people used the solution in my organization.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

I have previously used Microsoft Teams.

You need an administrator and must create a team to implement the solution, which is far too much to do.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a three out of ten.

The solution has increased our productivity.

I used the latest version of Slack. It was easy to transfer files over Slack. We used it to send gifts or messages related to the job.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I use Slack primarily for communications. This includes communicating with individuals as well as grouping people into cells to work on specific parts of a project. We don't use the features beyond just the basic communicative side of it.

With respect to being a clean and efficient communications platform, I think that it does the job quite well.

It's very good for when you have a large number of people working within the team. It can be a challenge to ensure that people are working within the bounds of the project that they are assigned to, and Slack is effective for ensuring that happens.

I have found it cumbersome to create and set up groups, or channels. I recall having to go through the application, then back to the web site, and then back to the application. I didn't really like that and this is something in the interface that should be improved. If it were possible or easier to create those working groups within the application, without being taken into a browser and working entirely within the software itself, that would be ideal.

I would like to see integration with collaborative tools, such as word processing software or programming environments and coding software, made clear, easy, and as broad as possible. It should handle simple products, all the way to complex ones. It should be easily embeddable inside a channel so that anyone can use it.

I think that changing the privileges to remove restrictions would help the users to adapt to the platform more easily, removing bottlenecks. Having to request access for particular users is time-consuming and it would be better if more people can do these things themselves.

I have been using slack since the beginning of 2019.

I have not noticed any bugs, glitches, or other issues with stability.

We have between 30 and 50 users.

A lot of the work that we're doing now ends up on Microsoft Teams. Whether I like it or not, it tends to marginalize and eventually push Slack out of the picture.

I found the initial setup to be straightforward. You can also bombard people with reminder messages that they should be joining a channel or discussion. In fact, I've had less trouble with slack than I've had with Teams.

From my perspective, this is a good product and I definitely recommend it. My advice for anybody who is implementing this type of product is to first consider what it is that they want to achieve, and then make the decision about which product to implement based on that. If you're trying to pick between platforms, like Teams versus Slack, I would recommend Slack for a variety of reasons. Even if you are using Teams already, I would suggest using Slack in addition because you can't go wrong.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I use Slack for communication with my colleagues. 

When someone responds to my message in Slack, a new window opens. There should be an option to roll down the answers. 

I have been working with the product for three months. 

I would rate the product's stability a ten out of ten. 

I would rate Slack's scalability a nine out of ten. My company has 60 users for the solution. 

Slack's installation is very simple and I don't think I spent more than five minutes to complete it. 

I would rate Slack a nine out of ten. I use the application on my desktop and I don't use a mobile version now. However, I may use it in the future. 

We use the tool to communicate with the design team, and exchange links, and code needs. I use it for collaborating with outside spaces. 

I like Slack's notifications. It is more user-friendly and pleasing than Teams. 

The tool is a bit slow. 

I have been using the product for six years. 

The product is a bit slow but stable. 

Slack is scalable. 

Teams is a Microsoft product and not free. You have to buy a 365 account and everyone cannot do that. Slack has a facility to avail free accounts. 

Slack's setup is easy. The product does not require any maintenance. 

There are no licensing costs associated with the solution. 

I would rate Slack a five out of ten. 

We use the product in the office for communication. It's our main channel for any communication.

Slack provides very fast communication. The communication is sent directly to me, so I do not miss out on anything. The product provides various channels to communicate. A channel is like a team, where all communication regarding a team is sent. The product gives the flexibility of having many channels. Communication is isolated and sent to the right person at the right time. Slack has a voice messaging feature.

The product crashes when I use it on the desktop. The product must improve user experience. It would be quite interesting if Slack works with Microsoft Teams.

I have been using the solution for six years.

The product crashes sometimes. I've never understood what the problem is. It happens intermittently. I don't know what really makes it crash, but it happens once in a very long time.

The solution is scalable. We are a huge team. We’re about 40 people. All of us use it seamlessly. It achieves our objective as a small team.

In 2006, we used IP Messenger. It worked the same way but could be used only in the office. We didn't have any visibility of the communication outside the office. It did not have channels. It had many drawbacks, and Slack solved a lot of those problems.

The solution is quite easy to set up. Anyone can easily set up the product, whether senior employees, junior employees, or professionals.

I use Slack on my desktop. I have it on my phone too. All communications reach me as soon as they are sent, whether I’m in the office or outside. I don't look at the product for improvement. I appreciate what the product is doing. I'm not an administrator. I am a typical user. I joined the Slack channel because I was invited. I have access to Slack as a user, not as an administrator. I used IP Messenger as a software developer for a medium-sized organization in Kenya. We could share files. We could send text messages and all of it. We couldn’t use IP Messenger outside the office. It did not have channels. 

For people who need constant communication and don’t want to rely on emails, Slack is the right tool for them. We can work on the mobile phone to communicate on the go. As long as we have internet connectivity, it is secure. We can create as many channels as we like and collaborate. We can also do voice calls and send voice notes. Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.

The channels feature is the selling point for me. Being able to create a conversation for both public and private purposes through some channels is an absolute plus.

I was the president of a college event planning organization. Being able to have a conversation with my executives separately from the organization members was very convenient.

With multiple events happening and multiple conversations going on, I was able to divide the conversations into their respective groups and create channels for focus groups. This increased our productivity and efficiency by more than 80%.

Archiving for direct messages made tracking back conversations very difficult once the group started to grow large.

From what I noticed while using Slack, once a channel starts growing in
its number of messages, older messages are archived. This made it more
difficult to reference older messages. To be able to search for a particular message, you'll need to remember the exact phrases or the sender.

I think it would be much easier to "Scroll back" into older messages even
though it archived.

I have been using this solution for three years.

Stability was not an issue at any point. My team and I used it across multiple devices and platforms and the flow was seamless.

We had no issues with scalability. I was able to create more channels as the team grew bigger.

I never had to contact the support team.

We were initially using email and IM chat to communicate. We switched because the conversations became unorganized and inefficient when conversations started overlapping.

The setup was very straightforward. Once I sent an invite to my new team members, all they had to do was create a password and sign in. Their channels were pre-assigned and they had no issues joining the conversation. It was also easy to navigate.

Through an in-house one. Level of expertise was as great as it could get.

I had a relatively small team, so I didn’t have to worry about pricing and licensing. I only encountered pricing third-party apps and bots to help facilitate automations.

I did not evaluate any other options as I did not have a reason to. Eventually I heard of Ryver. I was not compelled to switch though.

I think Slack is a very creative application to help unify communication across all team sizes. I will definitely suggest this as my first choice.

We use it with our clients for sharing files and for communication.

We use thread-based communication. So that if a new person comes to look into a problem for a particular task, they can easily go and look into the particular thread it is discussed in.

We also send/download multiple files at a time.

It's also helpful that we can do group and individual calls on Slack.

There is a great search functionality.

 Sometimes there are login issues.

I have experience using Slack. 

It is stable. 

Slack is east to scale.

It is an affordable solution. 

Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.