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Pretty sure enabling these by default would lead to a moderation nightmare in many groups.


Slack is an in-company chat product (their slogan is literally “where work happens” [1]) and it was never intended for public groups, which is why all invite automation tools for Slack are third-party. Slack doesn’t want you to use their product as a public chatroom and they try really hard to make that as unattractive as possible.

Given that, “moderation nightmare” is not really a concern for the target audience since if your company needs moderation in its work chat, you have much bigger problems.

[1] https://slack.com/


I don't see how. You would still need to authenticate with that group, so it wouldn't automatically allow anonymous participants from the Internets.




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