Slack group message participant cap forces channel creation
Slack limits how many people can be in a group message, forcing conversion to a named channel for larger informal discussions, adding overhead and ceremony to casual multi-party conversations.
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As a company adds more teams and topics, Slack's flat channel/space model becomes inflexible, and reorganizing channels into department-level structures takes far more manual effort than expected. This creates ongoing administrative overhead for growing organizations managing their collaboration workspace.
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