# Chat UX comments

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-ux-comments/227068
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [May 15, 2022, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-ux-comments/227068 "2022-05-15T10:08:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Jonathan5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jonathan5/32/197134_2.png) [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-ux-comments/227068/1 "2022-05-15T10:08:53Z")

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Originally sent in [The Chat Feedback topic](https://meta.discourse.org/chat/c/-/129)

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Jonathan5

Why does CHANNELS have a pencil and PERSONAL CHAT have a plus sign?

 ![46580402-59BE-4869-B7D7-965A56486C42.jpeg](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/2/d/02d046ebe9d1705d616b6b3394497619f267449f.jpeg)

It was frustratingly non-obvious to me that the pencil sign was to join (or leave or preview) chats

It would be good if there were a back button or some navigation from this page. Swipe left is easy enough to guess but only just.

 ![A955CCB5-C246-4521-9191-149091E3FF17.jpeg](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/3/d/a3d516cb4458bb29c436fd18fde62e9439c8a170.jpeg)

It would be good if there a join icon on this page instead of having to type a message - possibly unwelcome nonsense :-) - to join the chat

 ![F67BF8A1-79E9-4E29-9309-5499F879E657.jpeg](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/c/f/5cfb60ddf86a254f3117467d12863c692f626bbf.jpeg)

The blue link on this page leads to an "Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private." message

 ![0D32518C-F38E-4285-93AF-1AB2D2E58599.jpeg](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/f/d/4fdf8cc555f5d12a915409e9b972e759d33acdf1.jpeg)

The back button here goes to the Channels/Personal chat page instead of the Preview/Join/Leave that I came from

 ![F8387E13-AEB3-420E-B1A9-4DBF123317B2.jpeg](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/4/c/34c058ef41a989e722256e431408ba7af7008383.jpeg)

I think the emoji selector needs one extra character to be typed after the colon (compared with the forum).

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### Author: ![Jonathan5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jonathan5/32/197134_2.png) [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-ux-comments/227068/2 "2022-05-15T10:10:54Z")

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I would have added the “chat” tag to this but am unable.

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### Author: ![Jonathan5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jonathan5/32/197134_2.png) [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-ux-comments/227068/3 "2022-05-15T10:14:41Z")

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It would be nice if a link to a chat post (if that’s the terminology) would show a preview/onebox.