“After we rolled out Slack Connect DMs this morning, we got valuable feedback from our users about how email invitations to use the feature could potentially be used to send offensive or intimidating messages,” said Jonathan Price, Slack’s VP of Communications and Policy. , against CNN Business. in a statement. “We are taking immediate action to prevent this type of abuse, starting today with the removal of the ability to customize a message when a user invites someone.”
“People within your company … routinely message people outside, be they customers or partners and salespeople and so on,” Butterfield said. “We want to make it as easy as possible, and at best as wonderful as possible, for two people to use Slack Connect to give you a lot more control and much more insight into how that communication works.”