Be aware that English is not every user’s main language. The language on MacAdmins is usually English, though regional channels are often held in that region’s language.

Public channels in MacAdmins Slack are either on a particular technology or software (#highsierra or #munki), regions or countries (#thenetherlands, #uk or #anzmac), events (#psumac or #wwdc) or pretty much everything else. This is not how those keys are usually used on macOS and throws me off every time. If a channel with the name exists, the word will be linked so that users can click to go to that channel.įrustratingly, Slack’s autocompletion (for channels and users) uses the return key to confirm a selection and the tab key to jump to the next suggestion in the list. When you start typing the channel name Slack will suggest auto-completions. When you are typing and start a word with the # character Slack will treat this as a link to a channel. You can click on the “Channels” header in the sidebar to browse and search existing channels. When you sign in for the first time, you are added to some public channels by default. Within a workspace, Slack is separated into “channels.” Channels can be public or private. Slack help has a general glossary, which is helpful. You will have a different login and username for each workspace. There are a few terms particular with Slack, that might be confusing at first.Īn organization can set up a Slack “Workspace.” You can be a member of and logged into multiple workspaces. The MacAdmins Slack is a particular instance which specializes on topics relevant to Apple Administrators. Slack has a web interface and clients for most operating systems.

It’s a cross between between a bulletin board system and a chat room. Slack is a popular message board application. This is, as the title says, highly opionionated and from my personal perspective. There are a few things particular to this Slack and some other online forums in general that I noticed, so I thought I’d like to write this guide. I use it for research, solving problems, camaraderie, and just plain fun.

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