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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 like having conversation for work related things, the threads are good for organizations etc. At the same time I would prefer having a channel for general chit chat that behaves like a group chat (with the reply behavior of a chat and the general flow of a chat.)
Yes I could just make a group chat that has the same members as my team but it is less comfortable to continuously go between the Teams tab and the Chats tab, and also inviting members to both the Group and the Chat can be annoying when there are many of them.
Is there a way to do this that I missed?
41 Replies
- DheerendraSingh27Copper Contributor
ohanoch This is a must. I hope they work on this feature soon. I joined a project where they started using group chat as a method of communication and I am desperately looking for the day I get the feature to convert this to a teams channel.
- logan_murray_inforCopper Contributor
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. - MartinLeducLTGCopper ContributorHi there,
I've just posted a topic like this. I guess it will become a feature request ;).
There is my question and no, no add-in can do this unfortunately
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/conversations-chats-under-team-channels/m-p/3398659 - Nothing built-in for this scenario afaik, perhaps look into Teams add-ins?
- ohanochCopper Contributor
VasilMichev Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I didn't find anything in the add-ins...