Now you just need to let your friends know that it’s time to switch.Discord is a great social media platform for users who want to stay connected with their friends and find new ones, as it allows them to create their own servers and join existing ones.

Still, it’s a searchable archive of all your old Slack posts. Posts are all in plaintext, and you won’t see the avatar next to them. It will take a while, granted, and the results aren’t perfect. Repeat this process-creating a blank channel, opening the JSON folder, and running /slackord-for every channel you want to migrate.

If everything is set up correctly, the messages will slowly start to show up. Now you can type “ /slackord” in the Discord channel you want to import your channel’s archives to. This will connect-you can tell it’s working if the bot you created it shown as online in Discord. When parsing is done on Slackord, click Settings > Bot Connection > Connect. While it’s parsing, head to Discord and make a new text channel with the same name. If everything is working correctly, you should see old messages scrolling before your eyes. The parsing process may take a while, depending on how large the archive is. Browse to the Slack archive you downloaded earlier and open the folder for the channel you want to migrate. To summarize: You need to download your Slack archive, set up a Discord bot, then get the Discord bot to grab and copy all posts from a channel. The process is a little janky and works best if you have a Windows computer, but it works. If you have a long history of messages in Slack and want to take that history with you, here’s how. I wrote last year about how to get Slack’s best features for free, the conclusion of which was basically “use Discord instead.” That’s because Discord’s free version offers almost all of the features Slack puts behind a paywall. That’s because access to messages older than three months, and all sorts of other features, are only available if you pay $7.25 per user per month, which adds up quickly if you just want a chatroom for your friends. Slack is great for companies, but less so for groups of friends and online communities. Even better, you can move all of your Slack messages-including those older than three months-over to Discord. The free version of Slack is limited to just three months of messages, but Discord doesn’t have that limit.

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