Slack 16+

Circular meetings

Slack and Zoom are great
I was thinking a good feature might be support for a circle

Each participant gets a chance to speak one at a time. When they are done they pass the stick to the next person in the circle who speaks to the group

We do this now but at the end of a persons speech they have to tag the next person

Everyone needs to remember who spoke in order to tag someone who has not spoken

This part is a pain it would be nice to at least have some history of some kind to know who has spoken so far

That would only work for the first pass thru the circle (we usually only go around once)
And then we go to the parking lot mode where we have interactive conversations

This is what we do in a regular checkup meeting a lot of people call a SCRUM meeting

A plug-in for Circular or SCRUM or built in feature would differentiate Slack from other products

Circle meetings are to give every one a chance to get the floor and not. Be interrupted until they pass a stick or physical indicating that they have the floor

Also good for a gathering of friends and relatives

What participants need to know is who is the next speaker so they know who is next
In a physical meeting it’s the person to your right

Please consider adding a way to make it easier. Raising your hand is interesting but causes people to go out of order…. If this is what they are trying to achieve

On slack I would love captioning Zoom has it already

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the suggestion, we'll be happy to pass it along to our product team for their consideration! 
With regards to captions, you can enable captions for huddles via Preferences - Audio & Video - scroll down, and check “Automatically turn on captions when you’re in a huddle”. Hope this helps!

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for iPad

The recent iPad App update misses the mark quite considerably. In some ways, it is almost as if Slack doesn’t understand its users. No longer easy to see all unread messages in one place - which was a feature I regularly requested for the desktop app. Now, the iPad app has been turned to be quite bland. Seems like the “Dark Mode” folks won the design argument; as the new app no longer supports the desktop or web app color themes; which now makes the iPad app incredibly difficult to know at a glance which team you’re viewing. Also frustrating are the 3 or so “Unread Direct Messages” you can see, when you tap “Show All” it takes you to the “Direct Messages” sidebar that sorts in its own way, with unreads strewn about. Also, Direct message addresses are much harder to read; too much text all clumped together. Unfortunate for the iPad app, Slack has taken a once very useful version (preferred as a second screen in some cases over the desktop app) and made it into a giant iPhone app. The iPhone app now also suffers from this Direct Message unread messages “Show All” problem. The only way to return some of the missing sort and see all DMs on the iPad app is to select the sort option of “by recent” but it does not group unreads. 7 years using Slack, and this is by far the most disappointing iPad app “upgrade.” Repackage the desktop app for the iPad and call it “Slack Pro” for iPad Pro users who use their iPad in place of a laptop.