Slack's Halloween prank takes over workspaces, Slackbot opens a costume emporium
LukeW · x · 2026-10-28
Luke Wroblewski shares a Slack screenshot: Slack popped a "Are you feeling spooky?" Halloween easter egg into workspaces, offering silly statuses, a frightful theme, exclusive Halloween emoji, and a "Slackbot's Costume Emporium" — with everything reverting to normal at midnight on November 1.
A fun look at how Slackbot's seasonal persona becomes shareable material even inside an enterprise tool.
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