When Slack has a case of the Mondays...

When Slack went down on the first back-to-work Monday of 2021, the memes followed suit. Y'all are hilarious on social and honestly, we love to see it. The short outage also sparked questions about what to do when your internal communications system breaks down in our remote-first world. Twitter DM? Group SMS? WhatsApp? Zoom Chat? Carrier pigeon? We turned to Twitter to crowdsource your favorite Slack alternatives. Here are some of your top picks: Telegram: Privacy focused group communications platform Twist: Team communications tool from the team at Doist Zulip: Open-source team chat with threading Discord: Group chat built with gamers in mind Rocket Chat: Open-source Slack alternative Slenke: Team communications and project management Signal: Encryption powered messaging focussed on privacy Mattermost: An open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative Basecamp: Project management and messaging tool by DHH and Jason Fried For some newer alternatives, here are 3 products just entering the race: Rake: Combining internal messaging with stakeholder communications Taskade: Remote work hub for messaging, project management and more Vizy: Like Slack, if it were video/audio first A lot of you also answered with our favorite solution to a Slack outage... just take a nap. 😴 [View Online]( [Product Hunt]( [6fc6aa43 ddae 49dc 9c7a bb2e08b0d692]( When [Slack]( went down on the first back-to-work Monday of 2021, the memes followed suit. Y'all are hilarious on social and honestly, we love to see it. The short outage also sparked questions about what to do when your internal communications system breaks down in our remote-first world. Twitter DM? Group SMS? WhatsApp? Zoom Chat? Carrier pigeon? We turned to [Twitter]( to crowdsource your favorite Slack alternatives. Here are some of your top picks: [Telegram](: Privacy focused group communications platform [Twist](: Team communications tool from the team at Doist [Zulip](: Open-source team chat with threading [Discord](: Group chat built with gamers in mind [Rocket Chat](: Open-source Slack alternative [Slenke](: Team communications and project management [Signal](: Encryption powered messaging focussed on privacy [Mattermost](: An open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative [Basecamp](: Project management and messaging tool by DHH and Jason Fried For some newer alternatives, here are 3 products just entering the race: [Rake](: Combining internal messaging with stakeholder communications [Taskade](: Remote work hub for messaging, project management and more [Vizy](: Like Slack, if it were video/audio first A lot of you also answered with our favorite solution to a Slack outage... just take a nap. 😴 [Show me more]( [Yesterday]( we looked at habit-forming products to help start 2021 with positivity achieved on a daily basis. 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