# Automatically joined chat channels

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-joined-chat-channels/224921>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** chat, completed\
**Created:** [April 21, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-joined-chat-channels/224921 "2022-04-21T08:10:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 7:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-joined-chat-channels/224921/7 "2022-06-13T07:03:36Z")

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I just launched Chat in my community. And I thought that the “chat default channel id” setting auto-joined people to that channel. It doesn’t though and I had a moment of terror when I realized that wasn’t happening 😬

I’d love to see even a simple version of this that has a site-wide “default channel”.

Edit: Conversely, it would be helpful to be able to see how many people have joined a specific channel, so I can understand what the reach of posting there is.

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