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Apps from Donut, Drift, Halp, Simple Poll and Zapier have seen home run upgrades, courtesy of their new home tab in Slack

Information Technology Pulling together data-informed presentations was costing our sales team time. Enter the Midas Touch app, which delivers them in Slack in minutes

Storage Almost Full! ‘To Ensure normal use, please delete files to free up internal storage space.’ I am sure you receive a ‘storage full’ warning once in a while unless your device is equipped with a cloud file-sharing system. Receiving these storage warnings can be frustrating, especially when you’ve important files that you cannot risk losing. That’s where File Sharing Sites come into the picture.

Slack is a cloud-based instant messaging platform that replaces internal communication overhead, such as emails, through chat rooms (known as channels). Each message is organized by topic, department, projects, private groups, and more into these channels enabling users to respond according to their priority. What makes Slack unique is that it promotes one-on-one team collaboration and that allows the user to resolve a problem right away, eliminating unanswered emails and high response times.

“You can use the free version of Slack for as long as you like and there’s no limit to the number of members who can be invited.” That’s what Slack’s pricing page reads once you get started. In all their PRs and advertisements', Slack has time and again claimed that their free tier offers an unlimited number of users. In short, Slack unapologetically mentions that there is no limit. You can add ‘as many people’ as you want to. But is it really true?

Go is an extremely opinionated programming language. import something in a file that’s not used? It won’t compile, and there’s no flag to override. While there are workarounds, the end result remains the same: Go files are never cluttered by unused imports. This is true for all Go code everywhere, making every Go project more accessible. Not all Go opinions are enforced by the compiler.

Matterpoll is a plugin that allows users to create polls in Mattermost. Since Mattermost is localized in 16 different languages, it’s optimal that Matterpoll is similarly localized. Because we rely on contributors to do the translations, we want to make it easy for them to translate new strings and determine whether already translated strings need to be updated because the “source” text changed.

Did you know that 73% of businesses plan to launch SaaS products and make all their systems SaaS by 2020? Swiftly and Smartly, our World is shifting towards ‘Software as a Service’ era. Some of the saas companies are already there, while most others are likely to follow. Vendors and businesses are either building new SaaS products or acquiring the existing ones. Wait for a couple of more years and your workplace will never be the same again.