# alternatives to slack

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternatives-to-slack/738523>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 25, 2015, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternatives-to-slack/738523 "2015-11-25T07:40:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![carlowplayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@carlowplayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlowplayer)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternatives-to-slack/738523/1 "2015-11-25T07:40:13Z")

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anyone able to recommend any sites similar to slack but are more public ie you can publicly display work youve done on slack.  
Otherwise you know any blog sites where i can organize over 50 files of work into folders and sub folders

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**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternatives-to-slack/738523/2 "2015-11-25T11:27:29Z")

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I’m not sure what you’re asking. Are you talking about the messaging app that’s analogous to a private IRC server? You’d like something like that but everything you do on it is public?