Slack Update Causes Starred Conversations to Disappear
A Slack app update wiped users' starred conversation lists, and the data did not restore after a clean reinstall. Starred conversations serve as a critical bookmarking system for ongoing threads, making this loss disruptive to daily workflow.
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