WordPress Contributors Continue Exploring Migration of Public and Private Messages from Slack to Matrix
In early 2023, WordPress and Matrix contributors proposed a new Meta team subproject to explore replacing Slack communication with Matrix, an open source federated chat system. After the team’s most recent meeting, Automattic-sponsored contributor Alex Kirk published an update on the status of recent experiments in migration. After researching more on migrating public messages, Kirk said the team is now evaluating whether the Apache-2.0 licensed Slack Matrix migration tool could work for this project. “It operates on Slack export files and requires a fresh Synapse server,” Kirk said. “We haven’t yet been able to confirm whether it actually can import the messages and hope to be able to share more on the next meeting.” On the subject of migrating private messages, Kirk said the team is leaning towards ensuring users have the tools to save their own external archives. “For migrating private messages in DMs or private groups we’ve concluded that we won’t want to attempt their migration but will look into providing tools for achieving that,” Kirk said. “Here we’ve found that browser extensions exist which allow you to download your own Slack direct messages inside your browser as a text file. Possibly it’ll be our recommendation to use those tools to export the messages for yourself.”…
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