I declared by mistake a channel as private on Slack (actually because I didn't realize at first that public meant public to the team only).
Now I can't seem to be able to delete it, although I removed all messages. It can't be be switched to public either.
It looks like once you create a private channel, it will always exist and be private.
What's the rationale behind this? Is there anything I can do?
Best Answer
I contacted Slack and got an answer, it looks like this is an expected behavior, here is part of that answer:
The answer also provides a workaround which consists in renaming and archiving the private channel, and creating a new public channel with the initial name.