Slack Notification Volume Overwhelms Users With Irrelevant Alerts From Unrelated Channels
Slack delivers notifications for every channel event including conversations that have nothing to do with the recipient, making focused work impossible. Calendar and cross-team notifications arrive without relevance filtering, creating constant cognitive interruptions. Paying subscribers have no effective mechanism to filter notifications to only relevant events.
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