Canva Used as Internal Communications Tool Makes Thread-Tracking Painful
An employee whose employer chose Canva for internal team communications finds it difficult and redundant to track conversation threads. A tool-misfit problem stemming from using a design platform for a purpose (team messaging) it wasn't built to handle.
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