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Using Slack Connect DMs to Replace Email Is a Terrible Idea – PCMag AU
Slack rolled back the most abusable aspect of its new feature, which lets you Slack anyone—whether they’re in your Slack workspace or not. However, you should still…
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Slack recently rolled out general availability of Slack Connect Direct Messages, to a storm of negative reactions. The feature, first announced in October, lets members of paid accounts invite other Slack users who belong to different organizations to swap direct messages. In other words, you can now send anyone a Slack message directly from your account, even if they are not part of the same Slack workspace as you. This is problematic, as I’ll explain.
As of now, the inviter…
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