Slack notifications arrive chaotically and messages get lost
Users describe Slack's notification delivery as chaotic and unpredictable, with messages effectively becoming lost or hard to relocate afterward. This undermines trust in Slack as a reliable communication system for time-sensitive messages. A structural reliability gap in notification handling that the reporter believes has a straightforward fix.
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