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Add Group Chat As A Channel
Hi all, I am wondering if there is a way to make a channel in a team that behaves the same as a group chat. I understand the advantages and disadvantages of conversations vs chats. Basically I l...
This seems like such an obvious feature I hope it gets added at some point. No one in my org uses the discussions interface because it is clumsy and unfriendly. We presently use the chat of our recurring standup meeting for our social "water cooler" interactions, but it's not ideal and would be nice if Teams supported this natively in channels.
It also occurs to me that much of the clumsiness could be avoided if they just got rid of the "New Discussion" button and defaulted to showing a text field with a post button. Then it would actually behave very similar to group chat and people wouldn't be afraid to start new topics. Unfortunately that still doesn't fix the fact that replies would be chronologically out of order.