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   Take Control of Slack Basics: Chapter 6, Work with Channels

   Glenn Fleishman

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Chapter 6: Work with Channels

   Channels fall just below teams in the Slack hierarchy, letting team
   members communicate in a topic-based structure. I would wager that
   despite a lot of communication in conversations, the vast majority of
   interaction in Slack happens in channels.

   A channel has either a hash or a lock icon before its name wherever it
   appears in Slack, which respectively indicate whether a channel is
   public or private. Private channels appear in your list only if you're
   a member; even team admins don't see private channels unless they're a
   member.

   Every Slack team starts with two channels populated by the system:
   #general and #random. From there, teams chart their own course.

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