Slack "Sync Thread" feature no longer available

[Sarah Green]

We rely heavily on the Sync Thread feature with the Slack integration - you post a message in a channel and the link preview shows an option to "Sync Thread" which syncs all messages in the thread to the comments in Jira.

I've noticed that the feature is stopped showing up - all the messages have the same formats to meet the integration requirement (add the link to the first message), but now they don't show up with the Sync Thread option in the link preview.

Example from the same user where it worked: 

Example from the same user where it did not:

[Maxfield Burdge]

It is also affecting my users.

[Rommel Andrews]

Having the same issue here, the Sync Thread option stopped appearing completely a few hours ago.

[Joe Paduano]

Morning Everyone. One thing i noticed with this, is that when i copy a JIRA item link into a slack channel , it now says "Added by a bot".

So now it seems that SLACK / JIRA thinks that when a human manually pastes the jira link , that its done by a bot. 

This is why we are getting the ASSIGN button and not the SYNC THREADS.  this needs be "seen" as done by a human

i know its not an answer - but hopefully give the JIRA devs a heading on where to go

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[Alexander Kraml]

Same here. Since 9th of October the Sync Thread option is not longer part of JIRA Slack integration. All users are affected.

[Muthukumar Ravishankar]

Hi everyone,

Thank you all for raising this and sharing your experiences with the Slack "Sync Thread" feature. We understand how important this functionality is for your teams, and we appreciate the feedback.

We’ve temporarily paused the Sync Thread feature while we work on some enhancements to improve its reliability and ensure it works consistently across all Slack conversations. Our goal is to make the experience even better.

We expect to re-enable the feature by second week of November and will share an update here as soon as it’s live again. In the meantime, your feedback is invaluable—please let us know if you have any specific enhancements that would love to have as part of this feature. 

Thank you for your patience and for helping us improve the integration!

[Witcher]

Is there a ticket in Jira Cloud for this? Tried to search for it but to no avail.