How do I jump to a specific date in history or the oldest message in a Slack channel in the desktop app?

Solution 1:

Slack..version 2.0.0 has jump to date feature. on selecting a particular date, the control goes to that particular date and then we can scroll

Click the settings on the channel, and then "Jump to date ..."

Solution 2:

In the desktop app, to jump to the oldest message one can open View Channel Details tab by clicking the (i) button, then clicking Created by ... text will take one to the first message in the channel

Solution 3:

Click on the date that appears before any messages belonging to that day, and then click "The very beginning" under the "Jump to..." sub-menu. You can also click "Jump to a specific date".

Solution 4:

in:cs-498-data-vis after:2020-05-17 before:2020-06-30

You can enter that after clicking the magnifying glass icon.

Breakdown of syntax:

in:

The channel you want to search

after:

After the date in yyyy-mm-dd format

before:

Before the date in yyyy-mm-dd format.