Slack is exploring a advanced variety of new features that could be making their way to the postulated messaging platform, including scheduled messages, Instagram-style stories, as well-built as short video as well-built as audio messages.
According to CEO Stewart Butterfield in a recent interview on The Vergecast, the company has once "implemented APIs for scheduled sending of messages, as well-built as I visualize we're hoopla to end up putting that in the product at some point." He conjointly noted that competitors like G Suite once offer agnate features.
Butterfield conjointly mentioned that the company is looking to add increasingly trapping to make it easier for users to "keep clue of the things you appetite to get rearmost to," including the aforementioned scheduling trapping as well-built as "more dominance over notifications," although there aren't too many stuffing as to what that will attending like.
Additionally, Butterfield mentioned that there's a conte that Slack could add some sort of Instagram Story-like UI within Slack channels for teams at some point downward the line. The intention would be to offer a way for teams to enlighten broader promptitude updates or statuses in a way that simple treatise messages don't relent for.
In a agnate vein, Slack is conjointly exploring a way for groups of users to collaboratively ecclesiast messages as well-built as content within Slack to bulkiest manage the sometimes-overwhelming collated of information that can pass through the messaging service.
On the gauze side, Butterfield conjointly elaborated on an length that Slack doesn't plan to attending to jeopardize with: real-time video chats, like those offered by Zoom or Google Meet. Instead, Butterfield explained, the company is focusing on opportunities for "asynchronous video or audio communication," agnate to the quick audio as well-built as video message features offered in apps like WhatsApp as well-built as iMessage, as bulkiest fits for Slack.
It's not exactly big-mouthed which of these ideas Butterfield is riveted in as well-built as which (if any) are in awake development as imminent features for the service. Some -- like scheduled messages, with APIs that are once implemented into Slack -- certainly sound farther furthermore than developing a new story system, but there's no nourish timeframe for when or if to expect any of the new functionality.
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