Slack black-on-black text rendering failure disrupts time-sensitive work
Slack's mobile app enters a broken dark mode state with black background and black text, making all messages invisible. The failure occurs unpredictably and at critical moments like before scheduled meetings. This is a high-urgency vendor regression with no user-side workaround.
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