Slack Design Decisions

Anonymous Group Chats Group chats cannot be named, they are only listed by the members in the group chat listed alphabetically and comma separated. This makes differentiating group chats that share members from each other very difficult. I assume this is to funnel users into using channels, but there are many short term conversations that don't necessarily fit into channels well, I feel that group chats are inevitable. If they wanted to funnel people I would go one step further and not allow group chats at all. If I don't have the group chat members memorised for the conversation I am looking for, I need to click around through all of them till I find it. This is compounded by another (great) feature: when a new person is added to a group chat, you can granularly select what part of the message history they are able to view. Some of these options result in "message transfers", where instead of adding the new person to the group, it creates a fork of the group chat with all the…