Slack iOS app has year-long consistent reliability failures
A user reports that the Slack iOS mobile app has had consistent, non-user-caused issues for over a fiscal year, attributing the root cause to Slack server infrastructure rather than client bugs. Suggests a persistent, unaddressed reliability problem on a major platform.
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