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Import slack "posts" when importing an organization from Slack

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#26,946 opened on Sep 29, 2023

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Description

As noted in https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/26357#pullrequestreview-1546624419, this should be possible with some work to convert the HTML format to markdown.

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Research direction
Examine the Slack export HTML file format and the current Zulip Slack import code (zilencer/management/commands/import slack.py) to implement HTML to markdown conversion for posts.
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python
Domain
backend
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3
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Half day
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Active
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