So, here’s a nightmare scenario: You open your work Slack on your phone so you can DM with a few colleagues. You talk with this group regularly, but you don’t see the chat in the list of active DMs on ...

The workplace messaging app Slack, which seeks to "reinvent work," did an about face Wednesday after users complained a new feature took a step toward reinventing harassment. The latest addition to ...

Slack rolled out a feature Wednesday allowing users to direct message people outside their company—but the workplace chat app quickly admitted it made a “mistake” and pared back some of its ...

The new direct message feature has no filtering or opt-out protections The new direct message feature has no filtering or opt-out protections is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported ...

Slack moved quickly this week to make changes to its public direct messaging feature after a backlash highlighted the potential for harassment from people sending abusive messages. The Slack Connect ...

Back in October 2020, Slack, which has made virtual chats with your coworkers so sticky that Salesforce has bid $27.7 billion to acquire it, announced a bold move. A new feature would soon let anyone ...

Slack, the workplace messaging platform, debuted a new feature yesterday – called Slack Connect DMs. Users could request to be able to send a direct message to any other user, even if they don’t share ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Slack is starting to roll out a new feature that lets anyone using the service DM ...

Slack, an increasingly popular messaging platform, is going to make working from home a lot easier for a lot of people. There is still a good chance that people will still work from home this year, ...