Funny animal gifs are really great, however they can quickly bog down the storage on your Slack account. Scaling a company that rapidly is chaotic and challenging, but having worked at other places who came out of that process with a bad culture and poor management, I continue to be impressed with the thoughtful way Slack management has scaled the company.

Slack also indexes the content of every document that’s uploaded, which means users can search for keywords contained in specific PDFs or Word documents. The search features in most email platforms are not robust enough to handle the needs of growing organizations, which is why Slack has developed its own contextual search tools.

Slack acknowledged last year that it already has an eye on measuring and monitoring productivity, not just facilitating it. Stewart Butterfield, the company’s CEO and founder, told an audience at a South By Southwest talk that Slack is working on a manager bot” that will use artificial intelligence to automatically track progress on projects and remind employees about work that’s due.

In the Slack Configuration page, enable the feeds to be notified in the Slack channel. Slack automatically indexes and archives everything that goes on within …