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Hello, communicators:

Workplace communication app Slack rolled out a new feature Wednesday morning that allowed users to DM anyone, including those outside of their organization, without having previously connected.

Users instantly protested the new feature, saying that the ability to send messages to strangers created numerous privacy concerns and the potential for abuse. Slack quickly issued a mea culpa, and said it would remove the customized invitation message aspect of Slack Connect DMs.

“After rolling out Slack Connect DMs this morning, we received valuable feedback from our users about how email invitations to use the feature could potentially be used to send abusive or harassing messages,” Jonathan Prince, Slack’s vice president of communications and policy, told Mashable over email. “We are taking immediate steps to prevent this kind of abuse, beginning today with the removal of the ability to customize a message when a user invites someone to Slack Connect DMs.”