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Years ago I wrote in and had an exchange with someone at Slack regarding "folders" for channels. I begged for the feature, and included some mock screenshots showing how they could do it. This was before Discord did it.

Anyway I got a tone deaf response, and someone on the Slack team passionately arguing that "folders" were too complicated and that nobody needed them and that 21 characters for the names were enough. I wrote back, and they doubled down on how folders were a bad idea.

The response almost turned me off Slack.

Anyway glad they finally changed their tune. Will really help people with dozens of channels stay organized.




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