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Boris Avney
Copper Contributor
Dec 14, 2016

@mention someone in Chats in order to add one to the conversation

Hi, We've noticed that while we have an UI way of adding someone to the conversation, we can't do so by @mentioning. Why is that?
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Phi Ho's avatar
Phi Ho
Copper Contributor
Sep 07, 2017
me too.
Steven Collier's avatar
Steven Collier
MVP
Sep 08, 2017
You can't @ in chat, but you can in a team conversation. I guess I'm in 2 minds as to whether you would want to @ in chat, if this invited them to your chat they would see all that went before and this might not be what you want.
  • Joseph Leiba's avatar
    Joseph Leiba
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 10, 2018

    The inconsistency of not being able to \@mention someone in a chat is frustrating.  It kinda looks like it's working, because it highlights and emboldens the following word, but it really isn't doing anything.  Am I mentioning the guy or not?  I have no **bleep** idea?  The UI needs work.  MS should make it more clear how mentioning is done.

    • Boris Avney's avatar
      Boris Avney
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 11, 2018

      Agree, very not intuitive, MS need to try harder if they want to dethrone Slack

  • David Rosenthal's avatar
    David Rosenthal
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    Sep 08, 2017

    Adding someone to a chat does not actually give them visibility of all the chat history that happened before they were added. This is different than how it works in Channel conversations inside a Team, where you do get prior history when added as a member.

     

    I believe you cannot tag people in Chat right now because all that tagging controls is the firing of notifications, and in Chat all conversation already fires a notification. The tagging mechanism is not used to add people to any sort of permissions or membership currently.