Slack UI broken: transparent overlapping elements in dark mode
Users report that the latest Slack update introduced severe UI rendering failures including transparent elements and overlapping components in dark mode. The app becomes effectively unusable for reading messages. This is a vendor regression affecting Android users during a specific release cycle.
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