Users frustrated by ongoing Slack UI/UX regressions
A user vents that repeated Slack updates, including unwanted URL rewriting behavior, have progressively degraded the UI/UX across desktop and mobile. The complaint is emotional but lacks a specific, actionable feature gap.
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