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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...
July 2023 - we're still searching the whole Internet for answers - HOW TO CREATE FREAKING GROUP CHAT WITHIN THE TEAMS CHANNEL. WE CAN'T AND WE'RE SAD. YES - SO SAD THAT WE NEED TO USE CAPS LOCK TO EXPRESS OUR SADNESS. MICROSOFT, WHY?
- this is such a good response I signed up to TechCommunity just to give it a thumbs up. This HAS to happen. Don't make us manage Team and chat membership separately, it goes without saying that one should be able to follow the other.
- same here, will get back in a year to see how many of us was igno.. eh "not enough inspirational" by MS 🙂
- Absolutely agree. This basically means we need to create and pin a Chat Group separately and rename it for the Team channel. Really weird and feels disconnected and hard to navigate.
winicjusz I think that feature would be great, I was just looking for it, however I hope they make it an option and not a full blown requirement. The discussion style interface with threading is great for teamwide communication with announcements, and other stuff. I've used it for submissions to ensure everyone has synced their work before we package things up, or important announcements. Much better than generic chat. I recently switched firms and we use google chat and I absoolutely hate it because the "spaces" in google chat are essentially just what a group chat was in teams and there are no true "teams". We are looking into teams now, but I imagine some would prefer a chat like interface for the teams.
- I think the simplest way to do it would be either to add an option when creating a channel whether you want chat or posts format, or even simpler just allow Chat tabs to be added to channels. Either way would go a long way towards engagement in channels. We currently have a channel called "Social" in our team that still has the "Let's start the conversation" placeholder. I think that illustrates things pretty much perfectly.
