Flowchart of how Slack decides to send a notification.

Goes to show why a simple feature may take much longer to develop than many people think.

Users may not have any clue of the complexity of a system's design if it feels like the thing "just works".

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I shudder when I think about how many different stakeholders/teams needed to get aligned to define this behavior and how painful the internal politics must be when trying to change it.

“Just add the feature” 😅

Posting this to Slack for the benefit of marketing/sales