# 📣 Introducing default chat channels (automatically add users)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-default-chat-channels-automatically-add-users/233141
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** chat, new-feature
**Created:** [July 18, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-default-chat-channels-automatically-add-users/233141 "2022-07-18T20:57:34Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-default-chat-channels-automatically-add-users/233141/40 "2023-05-25T18:00:15Z")

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We merged the following pull requests which should address this issue:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20213](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20213)

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/21700](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/21700)

Initially, we had planned to allow read-only users to preview chat channels, but designing the user experience for that turned out to be a bit more complicated than we originally anticipated, so we removed that feature for now in the name of simplicity.

Note: if you had channels set up with auto-join that included groups with read-only permissions, you may need to edit the channel settings once to force the membership list to synchronize with these new rules.

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