# Greater visibility for Category Channels

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/greater-visibility-for-category-channels/229131>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [June 6, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greater-visibility-for-category-channels/229131 "2022-06-06T09:31:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![lisandro\_iaffar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lisandro_iaffar/32/315816_2.png) [@lisandro\_iaffar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisandro_iaffar)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greater-visibility-for-category-channels/229131/20 "2022-09-07T02:14:15Z")

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Hello!! My way to very primitively implement “chat channels” (plus “linking them”) to categories was to pin a category at the top and change it’s color with CSS to distinguish it from a normal topic.

 ![Captura de pantalla de 2022-09-06 23-03-47](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/1/f/b1f433b13366fd90950b85f6e913f0665d8e897e.png)

The idea was to use chat rooms for quick syncing between people. Quick and ephemeral communication. So I also configured temporal comments, to force that use, and to force users to save important information in a topic if something came out of the brainstorming. So I left the chat rooms at the top since it would be the place a lot of topics would “fall” from. Seemed natural.  
My forum is a political forum, both the the tool and the use are a novelty so I have been struggling to get people to use it. That’s my excuse for saying that I can not yet prove the workflow works based on empirical data 😅  
The entire thing, the placement, the context information of a typical topic, etc, seems to accomplish whats asked in this topic. The only change would be to apply to this specific “chat topics” the interface of the chat room and we have the whole package arranged in a nice and natural manner IMO. Of course, the chat room would be shown in a more compact arrangement, not the full width like in my example. Even round edges could visually make the difference.

This is my forum: [https://foro.enunionylibertad.com](https://foro.enunionylibertad.com)

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