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Slack conversations hard to follow and disorganized

Users struggle to track conversation continuity in Slack when threads become fragmented or when the last message context is lost. The pain is moderate and well-known but Slack's core model makes it structurally persistent. Existing tools like thread summaries partially address this.

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