# Chat Search and Groupchat Ownership

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-search-and-groupchat-ownership/360818
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [April 8, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-search-and-groupchat-ownership/360818 "2025-04-08T00:28:33Z")
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### Author: ![lindsey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lindsey/32/318210_2.png) [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-search-and-groupchat-ownership/360818/2 "2025-12-10T20:55:29Z")

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> [@Turtle](#):
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> Add a search messages function into channels and dms.

We recently added chat search; it works much in the way you described though you cannot search specifically by date.

Take a look at this topic and feel free to suggest improvements once you’ve tried it out! [Introducing chat search](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-chat-search/385755)

> [@Turtle](#):
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> For the Groupchat ownership thing- you, as the creator of a groupchat, should be able to manage who can invite people and should be able to remove people at will.

Right now, anyone in the group chat can add members (until they reach the limit of users who can be in a single group chat, based on the `chat max direct message users` setting). So is that not working out well for you, and you want to _prevent_ chat members from adding others?

(You’re correct that members can only leave of their own accord; we haven’t built the ability to remove folks from the group chat.)

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