Apps unsuitable for the App Directory
While the App Directory accepts many applications to be featured and shared with the rest of the Slack world, there are some aspects of an app that would make it unsuitable. Apps that would not be accepted to the App Directory include apps with the following features:
- Export or back up message data.
- Are built for the sole purpose of searching Slack messages outside of Slack.
- Use legacy scopes or methods.
- Allow possibly destructive behavior such as deleting files.
- Embed Slack into another site.
- Only use Sign in with Slack functionality.
- Replicate Slack client functionality or are third-party Slack clients.
- Request a large number of scopes for simple, non-work-related functionality.
- Share sensitive information in Slack.
- Circumvent admin features in Slack.
- Do not provide any functionality that the App Directory team deems valuable to Slack.
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