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I strongly agree with everyone in this post that we should be able to make an exact copy of an open forum and turn it into a private team.  Idealy I would like to keep the open forum intact  and functional and  only  make a copy of it  as a private team. 

 I'm not a programmer so I don't know what that involves exactly, but as it has been requested now for over three years and slack has already implemented the same  feature.  I would think it would be a high priority for Ryver and at least get some  recent reply from the Ryver team as to progress and ETA.