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Importing from Slack, Hipchat, Flowdock, Basecamp, etc.

Hi,
We are using Slack for a long time and now we are thinking to transition to MS Teams. In Slack it is possible to export all channel content's in JSON with links to files uploaded to slack.
It could be very useful to have the ability to import the slack history into MS teams.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    table stakes imo for our org to cut over from Slack. Too much important history to lose or be forked from

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, my teams have been using Slack and Basecamp for years. It is important to be able to import from these.

  • Seth commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Can't move my entire dev/product team over until an import function is created.
    **** - even a third party "so-so" bandaid would be good enough.

  • Geoffrey Gelb commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, please!! We use Glip currently and would like the ability to migrate automatically from this service.

  • Peter Linton commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Slack is highest priority for me, but Whatsapp maybe a good add to the list at a lower priority.

  • Zach commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes - I run an MSP and all of our clients were on Slack. I could move thousands of users to Teams if this functionality existed!

  • Johan Elmqvist commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I cannot get my dev teams to switch to Teams unless we can import the history from Slack. When is this feature coming?

  • Neil K commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The only thing holding me back from migrating 65 devs to Teams is the loss of history in Slack. This should be a *very* high priority feature on the Teams backlog.

  • Ludmila B commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Most of these services have already this option.
    It's not even an "option", it is available by default and it should be implemented - if you really want more people switching to Teams.
    The first thing when you decide migrating to a different service (competitor) - you see what you can take with you in the process: the history, list of users, etc.
    And there's the bump with Teams - nothing of the sort is available.

  • RSD commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We use Slack in Engineering and it will be great to have all the data exported to Teams!

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