Slack Unread State and Notifications Unreliable Across Channels
Slack fails to consistently mark channels as unread or deliver notifications when new messages arrive, causing users to miss communications they were expected to act on. The unreliability is structural rather than user-configurable, affecting teams that rely on Slack as their primary async communication layer. No in-app mechanism alerts users to missed notification events.
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