Huddles & voice
Huddles are great for the quick "got 30 seconds?" but the audio and video quality routinely come up short of what teams already pay Zoom or Meet for.
What people actually say
✕On Hacker News, engineers describe Huddle as having very low audio quality with frequent dropouts compared to dedicated conferencing tools.
Source: Hacker News, Slack Huddle quality thread ↗✕Comparison reviews note inconsistent video quality, choppy audio and higher latency than Zoom or Google Meet, plus Bluetooth headset issues after updates.
Source: Secumeet, Slack vs Zoom comparison ↗
How we'd rebuild it for you
Huddles ship as a thin LiveKit or Daily.co room button next to each channel — managed WebRTC infrastructure costs cents per participant-minute, scales to dozens of concurrent rooms, and you skip Slack's audio engine entirely. If the team already pays for Zoom or Meet, we wire that in instead.