Slack Lacks Native Video Meeting Functionality, Forcing Zoom/Teams Handoffs
Slack users need to leave the platform for full video meetings since Huddles only offer bare-bones functionality, forcing teams onto Zoom or Microsoft Teams instead. This fragmentation causes meeting chat history and context to become scattered outside Slack, making it hard to find later.
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