I am using Discourse as a client portal where I mostly work one on one (and in small groups) with my clients in their secure category. They can additionally join community discussions and chat if they feel comfortable doing so.
I really like this new opportunity to drop clients into a chat channel instead of the topic list, but would like to drop them into their own channel that is part of their secure category. I would be waiting there for them.
Realizing this is not possible now and am not sure how it would be implemented.. some ideas that came to me:
- by primary group - specify a category as “primary category”, and then specify a chat channel as the “primary chat” for the category. That’s alotta primaries!
- by user preference - allow members to specify their preferred chat channel, with the ability to set this automatically for new members in the invite, based on a custom user field, or some other automation