In order to make room for new improvements and provide the best user experience, Slack will occasionally retire a feature from the product. We’ll always do our best to provide advanced notice and recommend alternatives to admins and affected members before saying a final farewell to any feature.
Upcoming Slack feature retirements
Designated channels for flagged messages
Announcement date
1 April 2024
Retirement date
3rd December 2024
Note
Designated channels for flagged message review are being retired, and flagged messages will instead be reviewed from the admin dashboard. Organisations currently using a designated channel can view and action outstanding messages from the channel, but newly flagged messages will be sent to the dashboard.
The following legacy configurations will be deprecated in favour of our streamlined desktop app configuration: • Slack default sign-in on all platforms • Environment variable SLACK_NO_AUTO_UPDATES on Mac and Windows • The user preference SlackNoAutoUpdates on Mac
Status
Retired
Legacy Workflow Builder
Announcement date
6th September 2023
Retirement date
26 September 2024
Note
As of 24 June 2024, you will no longer be able to create new legacy workflows, use legacy templates or copy existing legacy workflows. You’ll be able to use, edit and re-publish existing legacy workflows until they are fully deprecated.
The Google Calendar app now offers support for channel and team calendar notifications.
Status
Retired
Email link to sign in on mobile
Announcement date
22 April 2024
Retirement date
24 July 2024
Note
The Sign in on mobile option to have a link emailed to your device will be retired in July. Instead, when signed in on desktop, click on your workspace name, then select Sign in on mobile to scan a QR code with your mobile device.
Status
Retired
32-bit Slack desktop app for Windows
Announcement date
10 April 2024
Retirement date
June 2024 (expected)
Note
Starting with the release of desktop app version 4.39, Slack will no longer release a 32-bit app for Windows. Users on version 4.38 and below can continue using the 32-bit client until their app version reaches the end of its support lifecycle.
The apt-key method for managing repository keys will be deprecated with the release of Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04. To ensure that your cron job script continues to work on all distros, we recommend updating your existing script to WIP.
Status
Retired
Posts deprecation
Announcement date
6th September 2023
Retirement date
March 2024
Note
Any existing posts in your workspace will convert to canvases. On Free workspaces, converted posts will be view-only and you will no longer be able to create new posts.
Status
Retired
Twitter app
Announcement date
18 October 2023
Retirement date
19 October 2023
Note
The Twitter app for Slack is no longer available due to upstream API limitations. Going forward, links to posts from X (formerly known as Tweets) will continue to unfurl if permitted by your Slack settings.
Status
Retired
Recurring scheduled exports (Daily)
Announcement date
24th May 2023
Retirement date
31st July 2023
Note
For performance and infrastructural improvements, customers running daily scheduled exports will be moved to weekly exports. Additionally, weekly scheduled exports will return data only from the last week, and monthly scheduled exports will return data only from the last month.
Status
Retired
Slack will no longer be translated into Russian
Announcement date
12th June 2023
Retirement date
28th June 2023
Note
Users can continue to send and receive messages in Cyrillic and use Slack in a browser to translate the app to Russian. Manage your language preference.
