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Slack offers several features that make communication easy and fun for the team. One fun part of using Slack is its deep integration of emojis. You can send emojis in chats to convey the tone of your ...

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 ...

I used to work for a company that had a few thousand custom emoji in Slack, which I admit got annoying—certain managers overused them to the point where I rarely had any idea what they were trying to ...

The happy dance is alive and well -- It's playing out in delightful loops on our work computer screens. We're talking about the bouncing creatures improving your Slack conversations with their sick ...

The emoji has become one of the least likely productivity tools of the modern enterprise. In the fast-moving discourse of digital messaging, these visual icons rapidly convey approval, praise or ...

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 ...