How to set up a Slack account
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Now that we're spending more time indoors, we're finding new platforms - and new ways to use old platforms - to stay in touch, whether it's for work or with friends. This is the case with Slack, an instant-messaging platform that functions somewhere in the space between email and text messages. Designed for quick communication, Slack became an important tool for a lot of workplaces well before everyone started working from home. But you can use it for pretty much anything: friends, group activities, clubs, or online communities.
Slack has a free version and offers several paid plans. You start by setting up a workspace (which is your main area of operations and contains your network of contacts) on Slack. In your workspace, you create...