Automatically joined chat channels

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

@alehandrof

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.

Just wanted to share that we are working on this.

@alehandrof

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

Thanks for calling out that point of confusion!

@alehandrof

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

Yeah, it’s likely that we’ll start with something like this, though we haven’t gotten to it yet, and group-based defaults may come into play.

There are a variety of other things we may consider in the general space of “channel discoverability” as well.

@alehandrof

I just launched Chat in my community.

Would love to hear about how things are going more broadly with chat in your community. Feel free to PM me or start a new topic if you’re open to sharing more.