Slack now forces you to use specific emoji depending on your system of choice. Mac and iOS users will still see Apple’s emoji, which used to be the default for all users. But now Windows, Android, and ...

Some of us are addicted to favoriting tweets, but Slack had a better idea: what if you could favorite a message with emoji? After users consistently asked for a “like” button in its app, Slack wanted ...

Slack now lets you react to a message with an emoji, any one of the 722. Slack is ingraining emojis even deeper into your work environment whether you like it or not. Users were already able to send ...

The “like” button has become so common on social media today that many click it reflexively to acknowledge a post or comment, even when “like” isn’t quite what they mean. Recognizing that messages can ...

If you use Gboard and Slack for work communication purposes, you might be pleased to hear that you can use Emoji Kitchen creations in the corporate messaging app. Technically this means that Slack ...

If there’s one factor that explains why people have an emotional bond with group-messaging phenom Slack that’s unusual for an enterprise tool, it’s the service’s polish and playful sensibility. Slack ...

Slack’s new Emoji Reactions are my favorite thing on the internet, at least for today. I have long pined for something more than a mere “like.” When someone shares that there has been a loss in the ...

Last week, emoji continued their unstoppable invasion into Slack. They began popping up alongside my coworkers’ names in the popular messenger-app’s interface: First, it was just a few early adopters, ...

We’re living in the high era of Slack rage. By Emma Goldberg If there were such a thing as rage nostalgia, it would be the longing for a time when people fought out loud — even in a setting as formal ...

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