Flock is a team messaging application made in India that has aspirations of taking on Slack[1], and over the years, Flock has made a number of improvements[2] in the pursuit of this goal. Now, Flock has released a new tool to help users to migrate their data from Slack[3], allowing them to switch platforms without losing out on any of their chats, files, or other information. Gadgets 360 spoke to Flock's Vice President, Product and Design, Ninad Raval to learn more about the new tool being announced by the company, and how the company has progressed in the last six months.
"Over the last few months, we started receiving queries from people on Slack who wanted to switch to Flock, and at that time we hadn't bothered with a migration tool because we hadn't expected this audience," admits Raval. "Once they had made their decision, they wanted to bring in their data, their messages, their users, instead of having to create [that] all over again."
"The migration tool itself is a very simple two-three step process. Slack teams, from their admin interface, simply have to click on the export data button, and it downloads a zip file," he adds. "Then go to your Flock page, and there's an import option to bring in the details from the zip file."
Slack allows you to export the user information, channels, the message history (depending on whether you're a free or paid user, this will be a limited or full archive) and any files you might have shared. Flock can pick up on all of these fields, and add it to your new team on Flock.
"The only thing that gets left behind is any bot messages,...