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Those 70k wouldn't all be on the same channel. Even at a small company you might want to have distinct channels with different purposes - maybe #sales, #sw-engi
by wging 4y ago
Those 70k wouldn't all be on the same channel. Even at a small company you might want to have distinct channels with different purposes - maybe #sales, #sw-engineering, #announcements. A 70k-person company might have a few large channels but most of the activity would take place in much more focused channels, of which there would be thousands or tens of thousands. A software team of a dozen people might have their own channel, for example. (Actually, in my experience we had several for distinct purposes.)
(and of course yes, there can also be big general-purpose channels with a lower signal-to-noise ratio)
- metadat 4y agoThe 70,000 are all forced into #general. However it's a moderated channel of dubious utility.
- wging 4y agosounds like you're talking about a specific company, or is this just a general Slack thing I've forgotten? by 'forced' do you mean they aren't able to create channels at-will?
- eropple 4y agoSlack also has Enterprise Grid, which super-huge companies use to divide into not just separate channels, but separate Slack "servers" entirely. When I was at IBM, they had...uh...a lot of them.