Access common chat channel actions from the sidebar context menu

martin · January 18, 2026, 11:39pm

@Magie a fix for this has been merged now:

github.com/discourse/discourse

FIX: Unfollow not leave DM/group DM channels in chat sidebar menu

main ← issue/fix-chat-context-leave-group

merged 09:07AM - 16 Jan 26 UTC

martin-brennan

+21 -7

Followup fc98ce9a7232009a33b74c1949dd1ffa1f73bddd When we added the "Leave ch…annel" option to the chat sidebar context menu, for DM and group DM channels we mistakenly used the leaveChannel API call instead of unfollowChannel. unfollowChannel is non-destructive and simply removes the channel from the user's sidebar, while leaveChannel is destructive and removes the user from the channel, which makes it impossible to find group channels again. c.f. https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-common-chat-channel-actions-from-the-sidebar-context-menu/392667

Topic		Replies	Views
Making 'Leave Chat' more discoverable UX chat , sidebar	9	845	September 26, 2022
Leaving a private group chat does not actually remove you Bug chat	7	3204	March 13, 2024
Closed chat channel appears in the sidebar when browsing the closed channels list UX sidebar , chat	5	538	April 28, 2023
Add 'Leave Chat' cross to mobile view UX chat	0	516	August 2, 2022
Mute chat channels in the left sidebar UX chat	2	534	September 24, 2022

Access common chat channel actions from the sidebar context menu

Related topics