It only takes about 10 seconds for us users to change the setting on the new icon, after we discover it's missing. Seriously, you need to mark this as important.
So it might appear to the uninformed that the Slack client update didn't trigger the problem, but it did. It also doesn't help, that after a client update, the old client runs until exited (as the taskbar icon remains visible), but on the next launch, the icon goes into the overflow. Okay, maybe not none, but I have never encountered another one, and I am a super geek.
The browser functionality for switching between Slack teams works like this you sign into multiple teams, and you use Ctrl + 1-9. The Slack desktop app is free to use and has mostly the same functionality as the Slack browser version. No other application that uses notification icons does this after an update. Slack is a powerful team collaboration platform with both a desktop and web based option on PC and Mac. If there is one application that MUST always be visible in the taskbar, it is Slack, and you keep falling down on this basic requirement.Ĭlearly, with every Slack client update, the operating system thinks it's a new app (with a new GUID or whatever the nomenclature is), so defaults to the notification icon being in the overflow. This issue has persisted for over a year, and a Slack update this morning did the same thing - the icon is in the notification overflow window, instead of on the taskbar. I sent them this message on the 'help' issue I first submitted 19 months ago: This issue has been around for nearly two years.
From connectivity to audio issues, here are some common Slack problems and how to fix them. It seems this changes when the application is updated. Slack is a popular office chat app, but it's not free of issues.
(And one day, I'll learn to write shorter posts.Additionally, every time there is a Slack client app update, you have to go into the "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" in Windows 10 to turn on the "new" icon.
(And your tech-savvy team will probably quietly install Slack) But if your group needs to include 'everyone' in the organisation, you will achieve greater acceptance using Teams. In summary: If you have a tech-savvy group who need to communicate, then they will become frustrated with the limitations of Teams far quicker than Slack.
In a full back page ad in the New York Times, Slack, the fast-growing messaging startup, welcomes Microsoft’s competition into the messaging market with an open letter in a mocking undertone. (In Teams, you can't even see a folder tree - you have to go to the associated SharePoint site to do anything useful.) But with a deeper feature set comes steeper learning curve - which is typically the barrier to adoption amongst the masses. Slack: Battle of the workplace chat apps. File management tools in Slack are light-years better than Teams 'basic' tools. Slack has a much deeper feature set - software developers love it for all the short-key codes you can use. It's a simple thing that makes a huge difference and makes sure that important conversations don't get lost in the noise of general chat. (The desktop Teams App doesn't have a "Reply" function - it's only in the mobile app.) Slack allows multi-threaded chats to happen - so a conversation can pop out into a separate thread, and replies seen in context. Select the workspace name at the top-left corner of the window. You can view your current workspaces in the pane on left. In Teams, a chat conversation is just a single thread, so a reply to an earlier message often comes out of context with the current subject. Go ahead and open the Slack application on your Windows PC or Mac and navigate to the workspace you’d like to leave. (Lack of emoji is an annoyance in Teams! Pro tip: Pressing the Windows key & the period key together show hidden emoji ) Also go on your profile icon on teams and click on look for udate. So like a genius i sign out and sign in and baam it was working. Deleted all my app cache and nothing changed. Integrated calendar, phone and video calling, Office365 integration, even collaborative-document editing (Office365 stuff) all make Teams a very 'inclusive' tool. I had the same problem, i deleted teams and reinstalled multiple times. Teams is a lightweight when it comes to features - but even the least technical users will pick it up quickly. If you replace Slack with Teams in an organisation who are already familiar with Slack, you'd probably have a riot! Thanks for the mention If you can define "best", it might be an easier question to answerĬoncerning HubSpot, you have a Slack integration out of the box, so that's one-up for Slack.įor everything else, it is probably inertia within the organisation that drives adoption of one or the other (as mentioned by in an earlier post).