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Fresh off of introducing group direct messages, Slack is adding another feature to make it easy to communicate with multiple people: user groups. Think of them as more customized version of channels; now you can choose to send notifications to all @engineers, @developers or @interns, for example, regardless of whether they work in exactly the same channels. Moreover, Slack says the update will allow you to better organize teams. Members of a user group can be set to automatically join specific channels, so that your @developers will be automatically added to all relevant chats (ex. dev-iOS, dev-Android, etc.). Likewise, it could…

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