In a serious stroke of modern brilliance the likes of which Silicon Valley has by no means seen earlier than, Slack announced this week that it’ll change into the newest in a protracted line of tech corporations to roll out a Stories-style characteristic.

During the annual Dreamforce convention run by its mother or father firm, Salesforce, Slack introduced that the characteristic—which might be often known as Slack Clips—will permit customers to share video, audio, and display screen recordings in channels and direct messages. The announcement comes nearly precisely a 12 months after Slack confirmed final fall that it was experimenting with an “asynchronous video” characteristic that might permit customers larger flexibility with how and once they participated in work huddle-ups.

“Imagine the daily standup meeting that happens from 9 to 9:15 every morning. What if you could record your update at 8:53 a.m. and watch the others at 10:51 when it’s more convenient for you?” Slack wrote in an October 2020 blog post previewing the characteristic. “This gives people the information and updates they need, with a measure of flexibility that is usually missing in today’s setup.”

Slack is, after all, not the primary firm to experiment with a Stories characteristic styled after Instagram’s disappearing content material feed in current months. Decorating the hallowed halls of the Museum of Trying To Make ‘Stories’ Happen are Reddit (which is at the moment test-driving a brand new brief video feed on its iOS app), Twitter (which just lately canned “Fleets,” its model of Stories, after lower than a 12 months) and TikTook (which is rumored to be experimenting with a disappearing Stories characteristic of its personal).

But slightly than being an outlet for customers to experiment with wacky face filters, as lots of the different Instagram-descended Stories options have amounted to, Slack’s iteration has been envisioned strictly as a method to share work-related updates. The characteristic, it’s value noting, appears explicitly designed to work throughout the work-from-home frameworks staff more and more discover themselves in in the course of the pandemic. Sharing updates on Slack Clips would make it extra handy for colleagues to share updates throughout timezones, for instance, by eliminating the dreaded technique of discovering a gathering time that works for disparate staff members.

Slack is within the technique of rolling out Slack Clips now, and all paid groups ought to be capable to entry the characteristic someday this fall.