Actions to take before Slack downgrades

[Josh Berkus]

Leads,

You'll have read by now about the impending Slack downgrade coming this
Friday[1]. There's a couple of things that team leaders need to do
before that happens:

Saved Files and Pinned Posts: If your channel has important saved files
and information in Pinned Posts, you need to copy that information to
other media such as GitHub files or GoogleDocs as soon as possible and
instead have a Bookmark linking to that location. Once our account is
downgraded, we will not be able to access pinned posts and files more
than 90 days old.

Private Channels: Private Channels are not backed up to our archives
because they can't be. If you have important information in private
channels which is more than 90 days old, copy it to another location as
soon as possible. We recommend backing up the contents of your private
channel using Slackdump[2], an open source tool.

Thanks, and if you have any questions or need help, please ask in
#chairs-and-techleads or #slack-admins.

[1]: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/16/changes-to-kubernetes-slack/

[2]:
https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/communication/slack-backup/README.md

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Josh Berkus