Discourse Chat

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When I read this I understood it to mean that only admins can create channels. But I just had a moderator create a channel.

What is going on. Does admin not mean admin user?

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It seems to be a typo. Based on the code, the access level has consistently been for staff (admin and moderator). Thanks for pointing out this error! (EDIT: I updated the first post)

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Thanks! I love how active and responsive the community is. Thank you!

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Hello! I have a specific use case in which I would need to be able to create channels and add users using an API

And to then add users to existing channels using an API as well

  1. Is this something possible to do using this plugin?
  2. If so, is there an API documentation for this plugin I can refer to?
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I know you can create users via API. You could add them to a chat by adding them to a group that has chat access. I don’t see a method to create the chat itself via API though.

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I’d like to open or link to a topic with the chat window opens by default in drawer mode on the right hand side, showing the channel of the the topic’s category. Is that possible?

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Not out of the box atm, you can have multiple channels for one category too so we would need a more explicit way to decide which one to show.

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It would be nice if there is a way to set a channel as the default channel of a category.

And a setting to always display the chat in drawer mode.

Our users have difficulties with switching between the forum and chat.

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I think I may have found a bug related to this plugin.

On my forum, https://scarletandblackinsider.com/, when the Discourse Chat plugin is enabled, the post composer box on mobile starts auto-scrolling to the very top of the topic while the user is typing. This causes the text editor to bounce up and down and makes it almost impossible to reply in longer threads.

Key details:

  • Hosted on Discourse standard plan

  • Core is fully up to date

  • Reproduced across multiple fresh themes

  • Reproduced with all theme components disabled

  • Issue immediately disappears when the Chat plugin is disabled

This feels like a scroll or focus handler conflict between the Chat plugin and the mobile composer. Happy to provide any additional testing details if helpful.

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The bug was fixed a few days ago. Things should get better after the next update.

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This bug has been resolved in Discourse Chat-settings/members can’t scroll on ios/ipados 26.2 - #10 by small-lovely-cat, just sync with the latest commit.

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Hello!

First off we love this plugin, we use it to stay in touch with our most active users in our forum.

We often have a message or something important for a short period of time to convey. We would love for the ability to pin chat messages that would show up a the top of the chat window.

I am thinking for our bigger group chats we may only want admins to be able to pin chats, so maybe an additional toggle in the chat settings to only allow admins to pin messages.

I am curious if anyone else would use this feature in their community!

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Ability to pin messages in chat
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Then you might want to add your vote to the feature request about pinning chat messages

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I swear I searched for this
 Thank you!

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