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Reduced day-long processes to 30 minutes

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Block Kit lets you build UIs without a UI designer. It’s available for use in app surfaces across all devices without any extra code.

TD Ameritrade built a Slack app called BetterBot to source fast, automated answers to common questions.

Reduced support tickets by 2500 per week

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Hearst used their HANS Bot to quickly surface data to decide which stories will perform best. HANS saved the team hours per day on searching for custom reports.

Drove a 50% increase in YouTube views

Automatically handle 3800 inquiries per week

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Latest from the changelog

Feb 25, 2021

The admin.analytics.getFile method now returns daily data about conversations in public channels. Members analytics remain available. Explore what's happening on your grid workspaces.

Feb 24, 2021

Three deprecations take effect today, February 24. First, new apps may no longer pass tokens as query parameters. Second, Conversations API methods are now required over their typed counterparts: channel.*, group.*, im.*, and mpim.*. Third, event payloads no longer contain full lists of authed_users or authed_teams—instead, use a new method to learn the full list of authorizations an event is visible to. We know keeping up with best practices for Slack apps is a lot to handle—thank you for allowing us to make the platform better. Keep reading.

Feb 19, 2020

If your app makes use of user emails, be on the lookout for relay email addresses. When users sign into Slack via Apple, their emails may appear as anonymized relay addresses. Relatedly, Sign in with Slack won't work with these users.

Browse more of the Changelog here.

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Feb 8, 2021