Slack will add a ‘stories’ feature to its chat app later this year, like Snapchat invented it and Instagram and Facebook previously copied. Voice chat channels like Discord will also be included in Slack, which Slack presents in an interview with The Verge as a replacement for the daily stand-up commonplace in many companies. Colleagues can use these ‘stories’ in video form to let them know what they are doing, after which colleagues can watch it.In addition, there are voice chats where users can talk to each other at any time. That should lower the barrier to initiate a call and instead communicate between colleagues the way it takes place in an office, and Slack is still working on a way to send DMs to people who are logged into Slack at other companies, it says. company. It is still unclear exactly how that will work, because it is undesirable that every Slack user can access another.