Slack puts a paywall in front of features that Discord offers for free. Here’s how to make the leap—and keep your archive, too.
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Slack Discloses Breach of Its Github Code Repository
Plus: Russian spies uncovered in Europe, face recognition leads to another wrongful arrest, a new porn ID law, and more.
How to Get Slack’s Paid Features for Free
If you can afford it, the app is worth it. But if you can’t, some workarounds will get you similar features without spending a dime.
How to Make Slack Look and Feel Like Discord
With your work in one place and your friends in another, here are some ways to familiarize the office app a bit.
How to Make Discord Look and Feel Like Slack
One of the best things about the free chat service is how you can customize it to work for you.
How to Upload Custom Emoji in Slack
Joined a new community and discovered—to your horror—that there are no party parrots? Let’s fix that.
Slack and Teams’ Lax App Security Raises Alarms
New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.
Could Slack Finally Fix the ‘Away’ Status?
The workplace messaging platform is working on new ways of telling our coworkers that we’re really, really not available.
The Soft Return, and Other Slack and Zoom Hacks You Need
These software shortcuts will make your workday more productive. Your coworkers will appreciate them too.
A Slack Bug Exposed Some Users’ Hashed Passwords for 5 Years
The exposure of cryptographically scrambled passwords isn’t a worst-case scenario—but it isn’t great, either.