Slack Shared Channels

#1

Post by sunils34 » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:03 PM UTC

Slack Shared Channels
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Re: Slack Shared Channels

#2

Post by Operyl » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

It was beta before today? These channels have been a thing for forever, I assumed it was already GA.

Re: Slack Shared Channels

#3

Post by giancarlostoro » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

Operyl wrote: post #2

It was beta before today? These channels have been a thing for forever, I assumed it was already GA.

Yeah it's been in Beta for like 2 years I guess.

https://slackhq.com/introducing-shared-channels-where-you-ca...

Re: Slack Shared Channels

#4

Post by tomphoolery » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

Our whole company has relied on this for the past few months in order to communicate with some of our clients, rather than invite them into our private Slack. It's been wonderful.

Re: Slack Shared Channels

#5

Post by rogerdonut » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

I like shared channels quite a bit and have been using them for several months. Unfortunately it seems that "user groups" do not seem to work with them yet. (i.e. add a group to a shared channel and the users are not auto-joined)

Re: Slack Shared Channels

#6

Post by arcdigital » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:59 PM UTC

Looks like they're finally available for enterprise grid customers too! Last time I checked it was only for standard plans.

Re: Slack Shared Channels

#7

Post by kordlessagain » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:03 PM UTC

tomphoolery wrote: post #4

Our whole company has relied on this for the past few months in order to communicate with some of our clients, rather than invite them into our private Slack. It's been wonderful.

When companies are having to hire people and set policy to police their Slack channels for endless discourse by their employees, that is NOT wonderful.

Re: Slack Shared Channels

#8

Post by polote » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:09 PM UTC

The issue with the channels are the same than communicating over slack:

You customers are feeling like they can ask any question and get an answer in 1 minute, and if you dont answer them straight away then they are unhappy. Definitively not something I recommend

Re: Slack Shared Channels

#9

Post by arusahni » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:10 PM UTC

arcdigital wrote: post #6

Looks like they're finally available for enterprise grid customers too! Last time I checked it was only for standard plans.

Strange - I was using Shared Channels on an enterprise grid plan over a year ago...

Re: Slack Shared Channels

#10

Post by crtlaltdel » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:11 PM UTC

i have used shared channels to coordinate with outside contractors. not having to add every single contractor as a guest to a channel was a major win for me. each of their orgs already had a slack setup.