It’s also safe to say that Slack makes more sense for larger groups of people. You should expect more of an uphill battle if no one you know uses Slack already. The notion of looping personal communication into the same app was enticing-especially compared to other chat room services such as Discord-and a few of my friends had the same motivation. Both Foundry (the publisher of TechHive and PCWorld) and another freelance client of mine use Slack for everyday communications, so I regularly bounce between these two workspaces to coordinate assignments with my editors. I should note up front that I’m already using Slack for work. Whether it’ll work for you will likely come down to how you communicate with your friends and family. While I’m hardly the first person to discover Slack’s potential for personal use, the desire for more digital communication during the pandemic finally made it click for me. The free version should cover the vast majority of personal use cases, and there are no ads or sales of personal data to worry about.You can even add a Zoom integration to start video calls directly from Slack. There are some fun apps you can use inside Slack, such as Spoiler for discussing TV plot points, Giphy for attaching animated GIFs, and Simple Poll for voting on contentious topics.Unlike when Android users crash an iMessage party, there’s no drama when different device types mix. It works pretty much the same way across iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and the web. ![]() All the photos and files people share are viewable in one place, and you can bookmark important messages. ![]()
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