Richard Lawler is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Some people are back in the ...

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Slack experienced frustrating issues for many on Thursday, including for ...

This enterprise software tool is not as dull as you might expect. In fact, Slack is skyrocketing in popularity by bringing hip design and novel functionality to an overlooked issue. Nick Statt was a ...

Update: Slack has heard the complaints and restored the old workspace switcher as an optional feature. Turn it on by clicking “Show workspace switcher” at the bottom of the workspace pop-up menu. The ...

We fixed it for you! Now, your Instagram posts will "unfurl" in Slack. I wrote about the problem earlier this week. Slack told me it was a Meta issue, not a Slack issue. Now, Meta tells me it's ...

Amazon Web Services appeared to be experiencing problems early Wednesday. This is the third time the cloud-computing service has experienced outages this month. When AWS goes down, it takes down large ...

Having problems with Slack right now? You’re probably not alone. Many people have reported issues on Down Detector on 20 October 2025, and Slack has acknowledged that not everything is working as it ...

I think Slack works fine as a messaging tool, in the right circumstances. But I have also seen Slack utterly destroy the productivity of teams and office environments, overriding the benefits that it ...

I recently installed Slack 8 on my comp and it seemed to work pretty well, except that I put it on my IDE drive just to have an easy time getting it working. Now I want to reinstall it on my SCSI ...