“Following the release of DM Slack Connect this morning, we have received valuable feedback from our users on how email invitations to use this feature could be used to send abusive or harassing messages,” he told CNN Business Jonathan Price, Slack’s vice president for communication and politics. in a statement. “We are taking immediate action to prevent this type of abuse, starting today with the elimination of the ability to personalize a message when a user invites someone.”
“People in your companies … routinely send messages to outsiders, whether they’re customers or partners and suppliers, and so on,” Butterfield said. “We want to make it as easy as possible and, at best, as enchanting as possible, for two people to use Slack Connect to give you much more control and much more information about how that communication is going. ”