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Slack Notification Overload and Information Burial at Scale

As Slack workspaces grow, users face constant notification pressure and fragmented conversations that make it difficult to surface relevant information later. Important decisions and context get buried in high-volume channels with no effective way to retrieve them. The problem worsens proportionally with team size.

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