feature requestProductivity · Collaboration & MessagingsituationalNotificationsCollaboration

Slack Lacks a Global Toggle for Thread Mention Notifications

A user mentioned in a Slack thread gets notified on every subsequent comment in that thread, with no account-wide setting to disable this, only repeated per-thread muting many times a day. This recurring friction pushed an otherwise satisfied user to strong dissatisfaction.

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