Slack becomes hard to track and slows down with many open threads and channels
Users active across many teams and channels report that keeping up with threads becomes difficult, and the app itself slows down when too many channels and threads are open simultaneously. This creates both an information-overload problem and a performance problem for heavy multi-team users.
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