Slack Breaks Immediately After an Update With No Clear Rollback Path
A user reports Slack stopped working right after receiving an app update, echoing a pattern of past updates introducing breakage. This reflects ongoing frustration with update reliability and the lack of an easy way to revert to a working version.
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