Slack Tip #4: Making a Public Channel Private

With a few clicks, you can control who can join your channels.

May 23, 2020 1-min read

Other than single-channel guests, all Slack members can join public channels.

Great, but what if you want to restrict channels to certain members?

Tough noogies.

I'm kidding.

As I show in the video below, it's remarkably simple to convert public channels to private ones.

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