Chat buttons in user context - 3 suggested enhancements

[jimkleiber]

I just had a bunch of new users join and I went to the Users tab in admin and wanted to just send a few quick chat messages to them to join, and found it really annoying to do it. Even after I clicked on show public profile I wasn’t able to send a quick chat, only message.

So I agree with suggestion 1:

@nathank

Suggestion 1

Could we also please have a Chat button on the User pages next to the Message button?

Edit: The button has been added to the public profile…

Chat button on profile page

Thank you for reporting this, I agree that the chat button should be included on the user profile. It also feels like it should be there by default. I think @Arkshine did a great job on working up a solution for this We had a quick discussion internally and decided to include this as part of core/chat, since it’s an expected feature and we also have it for the user card already. I went ahead and added it with this commit:

I also think it may be helpful to have message and chat buttons on the Admin User page, so I can message them real quick from the admin space without having to then visit their public profiles.

Or if we get fancy, then a way to message or chat with them in bulk from the Admin User page, as then I could click on the New Users tab and then quickly reach out to the ones who just joined.