How to Remove a Feed from the Sidebar Without Losing Content in the Main Home Feed

·Jun 08, 2026 06:53 PM·

Ability to remove a feed from the sidebar but keep the content in the main home feed I'm cleaning up Slack channels as we have too much going on in our community. I want to remove the feed from my sidebar to clean things up here but also because it's no longer a feed that you can post to. If I do this it removes the content from the feed entirely so we lose the history on the site overall so the experience would different on web VS searching in Slack.

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Stephen C.
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Hey Beth S., what are you planning to do with the corresponding channel within Slack? If it will remain an open/active channel, then all you have to do is change the Feed settings to not be in the Navigation Sidebar, which we support today (docs)! If you plan to archive the slack channel, then the feed will also be auto archived. We would need to do some work to allow archived feeds to appear on the site.
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Beth S.
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Stephen C. I've already archived the channel in Slack and wanted to remove it from the sidebar but when I clicked that I saw the warning and figured I'd check. I've already removed other archived channels from the feed previously but it got me thinking about how if someone searched on the companion site they wouldn't be able to see the content but you can find archived Slack channel content if you search directly in Slack
Stephen C.
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Got it, so is your ultimate goal to have archived feed content be searchable (but not in the sidebar) on the companion site?
Beth S.
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Stephen C. yes, exactly
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What about SEO exposure? Would you still want that content searchable by Google?
Beth S.
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Hmmmm, good question. I think it would likely vary depending on the channel and why it was archived. I don't currently have my companion site indexed because I have a different web forum right now so I hadn't thought about that. I guess the same could be said about site search, though. What got me thinking about this is that we have individual channels for various product focus areas and I'm trying to push people to a general help channel. One of the channels was a private channel we used for early access to a product but kept it closed after launch. I made it public before archiving so people could find answers to questions if needed because there's some good stuff in there
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Thanks for the explanation, super helpful. We'll put this one in a ticket.
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*Stephen Cook* created a Feature Request <https://linear.app/tightknit/issue/ENG-4827/allow-archived-feeds-content-to-still-appear-on-the-companion-site|ENG-4827> on behalf of <@U07P2FPB3EV>
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Mysterious W.
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+1 - I also want to keep archived/deleted Slack channels searchable in Tightknit.

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Stephen C.
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Hey Beth S., what are you planning to do with the corresponding channel within Slack? If it will remain an open/active channel, then all you have to do is change the Feed settings to not be in the Navigation Sidebar, which we support today (docs)! If you plan to archive the slack channel, then the feed will also be auto archived. We would need to do some work to allow archived feeds to appear on the site.
Stephen C.
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Beth S.
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Stephen C. I've already archived the channel in Slack and wanted to remove it from the sidebar but when I clicked that I saw the warning and figured I'd check. I've already removed other archived channels from the feed previously but it got me thinking about how if someone searched on the companion site they wouldn't be able to see the content but you can find archived Slack channel content if you search directly in Slack
Stephen C.
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Got it, so is your ultimate goal to have archived feed content be searchable (but not in the sidebar) on the companion site?
Beth S.
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Stephen C. yes, exactly
Stephen C.
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What about SEO exposure? Would you still want that content searchable by Google?
Beth S.
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Hmmmm, good question. I think it would likely vary depending on the channel and why it was archived. I don't currently have my companion site indexed because I have a different web forum right now so I hadn't thought about that. I guess the same could be said about site search, though. What got me thinking about this is that we have individual channels for various product focus areas and I'm trying to push people to a general help channel. One of the channels was a private channel we used for early access to a product but kept it closed after launch. I made it public before archiving so people could find answers to questions if needed because there's some good stuff in there
Stephen C.
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Thanks for the explanation, super helpful. We'll put this one in a ticket.
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Linear Asks
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*Stephen Cook* created a Feature Request <https://linear.app/tightknit/issue/ENG-4827/allow-archived-feeds-content-to-still-appear-on-the-companion-site|ENG-4827> on behalf of <@U07P2FPB3EV>
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Mysterious W.
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+1 - I also want to keep archived/deleted Slack channels searchable in Tightknit.