Slack desktop notifications intermittently fail to appear
Users report that Slack notifications stop appearing for extended periods—spanning at least a week—affecting multiple people simultaneously. The issue is reproducible enough that affected users find others reporting it online, but there is no user-controlled fix. This is a platform reliability bug, not an unaddressed market gap.
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