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by fennecfoxen 2022 days ago
Slack has some pretty weird blind spots as a business, too, like that one where all your hundreds or tens-of-thousands of employees must be part of the same general chat channel, where anyone can ping the entire company.
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> where anyone can ping the entire company.

It takes 5 seconds to change the permissions on that channel to restrict posting to admins only. We figured that out a few hours after rolling Slack out to a small subset of users to test.

Nobody has engineered a checkbox to disable that yet?
They have and it’s been an option for years now. (Disabling posting in #general)
They've been spending their their effort giving you their third version of a message-composition "block API" that still doesn't-quite-work as documented.
Is it so weird? Surely #general must be a holdover from IRC or some other pre-Slack messenger.