Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good?
The sounds of Slack have a secret history. The first time someone invited me to a Slack Huddle—an audio call that happens inside the app—I didn’t know that I had to hang up at the end of it. I heard a series of descending bloops after my coworker signed off, so I assumed the huddle was over and moused away into the sad forest of a thousand open browser tabs on my computer. Then, after about 15 seconds, I started to hear something waft up from my Mac-Book speakers. A very gradual fade-in. Jazz