Run a community / Connecting and moving

Move from Slack

Bring your team’s Slack history along, so nothing gets lost in the move.

1. In Slack, export your workspace: Workspace settings → Import/Export Data.
2. In Sideporch, upload the ZIP under Admin → Import. Exports up to 1 GB work.

What comes over

• People. Those who already have an account in Sideporch are matched by username. The others get accounts without a password: send each of them a reset link from their profile.
• Public and private channels, and direct messages, as far as the export includes them.
• Messages, threads and reactions.

Files stay in Slack, because Slack keeps them behind its login; messages name them instead.

Importing the same export again only adds what’s new, so you can import once to try it, and again on the day you switch.